THESAURUS OF RARE,
DIFFICULT, SPECIALISED, AND DIALECT WORDS
1 of 2, 2 of 4, 4 of 8… - bipartient
abandon (in time of danger) - jetsam
abating at intervals - remittent
abdication - demission
abdominal
- ventral
(opp. dorsal)
ability to please (the
opposite sex, in general)- ophelimity
ability to store a charge of electricity - capacitance
able to live in
different conditions - facultative
abnormal excitement - erethism
aborigine - autochthon
abound, overflow - exuberate
about to bring forth young - parturient
abrasive - abradant
abscess, ulcer - imposthume
absence of purpose in
nature- dysteleology
absolute power - autarchy
absolve, vindicate - exculpate
abstinent - abstemious
abundance, rich harvest
- foison
abuse, revile - miscall,
vituperate
abyss; (pit; insatiable person) - abysm;
(barathrum)
academic introduction to a
subject - isagoge
accept as one’s own - nostrificate
accepted ultimately - antilegomenic
accessory, appertaining - appurtenant
accident in a nuclear
reactor - blowdown
accost, to - abord
accuse, (charge) - bewray,
(inculpate)
accuse, impeach - apel
ache (to) - warch,
wark
achieved, one who has not - manqué
acquisition - acquest,
acquist
acquit - exonerate
acrobat - posturist,
posture-maker
act according to expediency - temporise
active - birkie,
wacken, on the rouk
active - frim,
lish, sprack, upstrigolous,
active, morbidly so - sthenic
actor, stage-player - histrion
acuteness, sharpness - acuity,
acumen
add at the end - subjoin
addicted to drink - bibulous
addition - additament
additional, supplementary
- bolt-on
administer (remedies); use/apply - adhibit
admit, permit to enter - intromit
adolescent girl - bobbysoxer
adorn (o.s.), to - adonise
adventure - aunter
adventurer to
æ - aesc
(pron. ‘ash’)
affected language - marivaudage
affected simplicity - simplism
affected terms - concetti
affected/pompous expression - pseudery
affectedly delicate - niminy-piminy
afraid - frit,
freckened, gallied, gliffed
ageing, growing old - senescent
agency which impels to effort - conation
agile and wiry; flexible - withy
agree, ready to - assentaneous
agreeableness of sound - euphony
agreeing in opinion - consentient
agreeing, consistent - consentaneous
agreeing, suitable - congruent
agreement - cording
agreement in function - analogy
agreement in origin - homology
aid, help - aidance
air, or sky - ambient
alarm-bell - tocsin
alchemist’s furnace - athanor
alcoholic - dipsomaniac
all-creating - omnific
alleviation - allayment,
lygement
alligator (S. American) - cayman
all-night vigil (eccles.) - pernoctation
allot quarters to troops - canton
all-protecting - all-bielding
allurement, coquetry - agacerie
almshouse - beadhouse
alone - solus
aloof - abeigh
altogether; all at a gulp - holus-bolus
ambiguous, obscure - oracular
ambiguously constructed - amphibolous
ambulance - blood-wagon
amount a cask lacks of
being full - ullage
analyse (sentence) - parse
anatomy: hard parts of the body - osteology
anatomy: soft parts of the body - sarcology
ancestor (earliest) - primogenitor
ancestor, forefather - progenitor
anchor, small - killock
angle, making no - agonic
angler; angling - piscator;
the gentle craft
angry - iracundious
animal living in another’s home - inquiline
animal, young fatted - fatling
animate, encourage - inspirit
ankle - tarsus
ankle-bone, pert. to - talar
annex - mediatise
announce - annunciate
annoy - fash
annul; annulment - abrogate;
rescission
anodyne - analgesic
anoint; give extreme unction to - anele
anointing - inunction
anomalous, irregular - anomalistic
anonymous works - adespota
answering alternately - amoebaean
antelope - addax,
blesbok, bongo, bubal,
antelope - duiker,
gemsbok, gnu, gysbok,
antelope - inyala,
izard, klipspringer
antelope - koodoo,
reebok
antelope (Indian) - blackbuck
antelope, steppe - saiga
anthrax - malignant
pustule
anthrax - wool-sorter’s
disease
anti-aircraft gun - Bofors
gun
antidote - alexipharmic,
alexipharmakon
antidote (supposed)
to poisons - bezoar
antiquated - crusted
ants, pert. to - formic
anxiety, reducing - anxiolytic
anxiety; to burden, harass - cark
apelike - pithecoid,
simian, simious
ape-man - pithecanthrope
apoplectic disease of
cattle - black
quarter
appealed against, not to be - inappellable
appear above ground - braird
appease hunger temp.- stay
one’s stomach
appetite, sth. to whet the - antepast
apple-green, pale - chartreuse
apples, rel. to - pomaceous
apply (seal), to - appose
apposite - in
point
approach - appropinquate
approval - approbation
apron - barm-cloth
Arab mantle with hood - burnous
Arabwoman black outer garment- aba(ya)
arch slightly - camber
archaic (would-be) language - tushery
arched - fornicate
archer - toxophilite
aristocracy - upper
ten
armour for forearm - vambrace
armour, full suit of - panoply
armpit - oxter
arms, bearing - armigerous
arranged on one side only (bot.) - secund
array, in full - in
full fig
arrow-shaped - sagittal
artifice, to use - finesse
artificial, melodramatic - stagy
artistic skill, displaying - daedal
ascent; military advance - anabasis
asexual - agamic,
-ous
ashen-grey - cinereous
ashes, pert. to - cinerary
ask - spere
assail, oppose - oppugn
assay, to - cupel
assembly/council, eccl. court - consistory
assent (obsequious) - assentation
associate together - consociate
assume as true - posit
assume without proof - postulate
astringent - styptic
at first sight;
offhand - at
first blush
at once - bedene,
bainly
atrocious - piacular
attached by the whole length to - adnate
attached, annexed, consequent- appendant
attached, esp. to the soil - adscript
attendant (on magician) - famulus
attracting, drawing (towards) - attrahent
attractive to opposite sex - epigamic
attractive, desirable - appetible
auburn, rich - titian
auction (to) - roup
augur, to - auspicate
auk, the little - rotch(e)
aurora borealis - merry
dancers
autocrat - cham
avenge - wrake
aversion to food - sitophobia
avert, prevent - obviate
avert, ward off - forfend
avoid - evitate
awake, to; to rouse - abrade
awl-shaped - subulate
axe-shaped - securiform
baboon, large, ferocious - mandrill
baby - lakan
back, pert. to - dorsal
back; private - postern
back-country - back-blocks
backgammon: a piece
liable to be taken; a weak point - blot
backwards - heelway,
backing arse
balance, be poised - librate
ballast (pig-iron) - kentledge
ballerina’s dancing
pump with a stiffened toe-piece - blocked
shoe
ballet-dancer (background) - figurant(e)
balloon; balloonist - aerostat
bandage - swathe
bank (high, steep) - bluff,
brae
bank, shore - rivage
banter; (flippancy)- badinage;
(persiflage)
bar inserted to stop wheel - sprag
barber, of a (joc.) - tonsorial
bare-footed/sandalled - discalce-d,
-ate
bargain;
cheap/cheaply/cheapness - bon
marché
bark - barquentine
bark (on picking up scent) - give
tongue
bark, furnished with - corticate
barking - glasting,
glatisant
barrage - fusillade
barrel, small - kilderkin
barrel-organ to train songbirds - serinette
barrel-organ, gigantic - apollonicon
barrel-stand - gantry
barren, empty, void of interest - jejune
barrister’s bag - blue
bag
barter; haggle; quibble - dicker
base (adj.) - caitiff,
coistral, scullion
base of a mountain, at the - submontane
base of the skull, at
the - basilar
based on the
desires/requirements of users - bottom-up
baseness, depravity - turpitude
bashful - blate
bashful, timid - blate
basic, ordinary - bog-standard
basic/underlying element - substratum
basin for rain-water - impluvium
bask in the sun, to - apricate
basket, one of pair, pack-animal - pannier
basket; beehive - skep
bastard child - by-blow
bastard; calf born prematurely - slink
bat - reremouse
bat, large; (small) - serotine;
(pipistrelle)
bathe warm water relieve pain - foment
batter with insults - to
lamm with flouts
battle field - stricken
field
battle-axe, concave - bill
bay, creek (Ork. & Shetl.) - voe
be wedged in tight
between two others - sit/ride
bodkin
beaches of E.U.
standard are awarded a - blue
beaked - rostrate(d)
beam (of wood) - trave
beanpole - cornstalk
beardless with side-whiskers - dundreary
bearing child for 1st time - primiparous
bear-like - arctoid,
beast-like - theroid
beat (to), chastise - dang,
swinge
beat black and blue - suggilate
beat s.o.; (flog) - dust
one’s coat; lam
beat with a stick - baste,
bastinade
beautiful - pulchritudinous
beautiful (place) - Tempean
become soft or sleepy
- blet
bed, pert. to - clinic(al)
bedbound - bedfast
bed-lover - clinophile
bedraggle - drabble
bed-wetting - enuresis
beef and vegetable
casserole, cooked in red wine - boeuf
bourgignon
beef, choice cut of - porterhouse
steak
bee-hive - bee-skep
bee-keeping - apiculture
beer, bad - swipes
beer, Russian - kyass
bees, wasps, etc. - hymenopteral
befall - bechance,
chive
beggar - bezonian,
besognio
begging-bowl - clack-dish
begin, to - inchoate
beginning, incipient - inchoate
behave badly - misdemean
behaviour - portance
behead - obtruncate
being hidden from view - occultation
bejant - freshman
(
belch out - eruct
belch, vomit, emit - boke,
boak
belief one is a god - theomania
bell, tolled after death - passing-bell
belladonna lily - amaryllis
bell-bird, S. Amer.- arapunga,
campanero
bellow, roar - bell
bellow, to (rutting buck) - troat
bell-ringing - campanology
bell-tower - campanile
belly, of the - alvine
bench, bank, shelf - bink
bend back - recurve
bend, curve - inflexure
bend, twist, (& to) - crankle
Benedictine - Black
Monk
benefit, to confer on
- benefact
bent like a bow - arcuate
bent like a knee - geniculate
bent like a sickle - falcate(d)
benumb with cold - shram
berate, revile - clapperclaw
berries, living on - baccivorous
berry-bearing - baccate,
bacciferous
berry-eating - baccivorous
berry-shaped - bacciform
beseech, entreat - obsecrate
beside the point - from
the bias
best - bettermost
betroth; betrothal - handfast
bewilder, darken - obfuscate
bewitched - elfshot,
elfstruck
beyond faith - ultrafidian
bigoted - hidebound
bind together (gen. principle) - colligate
binding, contraction - astriction
bird, allied to jackdaw - grackle
bird, fabulous, huge - simurg(h)
bird, finch, small - serin
bird, finch, songbird - siskin
bird, finch-like, S. Amer - tanager
bird, jay-like - sirgang
bird, mountain-linnet - twite
bird, wading - avocet,
avoset
birth, dating from - congenital,
connate
birth-rate - natality
biscuit, brittle - cracknel
bison - bonassus
bit, little - bittock
bitch hound, dog for the chase - brach
biting - mordacious,
mordant
biting, caustic - trenchant
bitter & satirical - Archilochian
bitter end - outrance
bitterness - acerbity
bitterness of language, temper - acritude
bitter-sweet - aigre-doux
black fluid, any - atrament
black, glossy - piceous
black; (swarthy) - melanic;
(melanous)
blackbird - merle,
ouzel
blacken with soot - besmut
blackguard - skellum
blackish, growing dark - nigrescent
blackness - nigritude
blacksmith - knight
of the hammer
bladder, of the - cystic
blame, to - culpate
blameless - inculpable
blanch, make pale - etiolate
blessed - benedict,
benedight
blessed are th.
peacemakers- beati
pacifici
blessed memory, of - beatae
memoriae
blessing - benison,
op. malison
blind - amaurotic, bisson
blindness - ablepsy;
cecity
blister; (to) - bleb,
blish; (vesicate)
blistered, puckered, bubble-like - bullate
block up, obstruct - oppilate
blockhead - mome
blood, feeding on - sanguivorous
blood, of the - haemal,
haematic
blood-letting - phlebotomy,
venesection
blood-like - haematoid
blood-red - sanguineous
bloodstained: blood-baltered,
ensanguined
bloodthirsty - sanguinary
bloody - sanguinolent
blooming early - rathe
(-ripe)
blooming more once in year - remontant
blossom forth - effloresce
blossoming - in
blow
blow - glase
blow in gusts, prevaricate - whiffle
blue (light, deep shade) - saxe
blue, deep - smalt
blue, deep rich - mazarine
blue-green, pale - bice
blue-grey, pearl-grey - griseous
bluish grey, dark blue - perse
bluish- or greyish-green - caesious
bluish-green - viridian
blunder - bevue
blunder, mistake - bish
blunt (to) - turn
the edge of
blunt, dull, deaden, to - obtune
bluntly, flatly - plump
blushing - erubescent
blush-red - damask
bluster, vain boasting - fanfaronade
boar/elephant etc. with tusks - tusker
board along edge of a
gable - barge-board
boast - crake
boast extravagantly - gasconade
boastful person - blowhard
boastful, bragging - thrasonical
boastful, noisily patriotic - spread-eagle
boasting - bobaunce,
bragance
boat (8 oars) - pinnace
boat (Eskimo, large, skin) - umiak
boat (fishing, one-mast) - smack
boat (flat-bottomed) - scow
boat (small) - coggle;
nacelle
boat (small, light) - shallop
boat (small, Mediter, merchant) - felucca
boat, cargo, large (
boat, flat-bottomed; bridge of b. - pontoon
boat, merchant, Medit, 3-mast - polacca
boat, rowing-, for passengers - wherry
boat-shaped - scaphoid
body, human, pert. to - somatic
body-louse - cootie
bog - quag
boil thoroughly - parboil
boil, (blister) - furuncle,
(blain)
bold exploit - hardiment
bolt, small; to bolt - snib
bombast - fustian
bombastic, pompous - high-faluting
bone partit. nostrils (ploughshare)- vomer
bone, dead/detached, piece of- sequestrum
bonfire - balefire
bony - osseous,
osteal, osteoid
bony, hard - scleral,
sclerous
book of set forms, precedents - formulary
book, left-hand page - verso
book, right-hand page- recto
book-binding - bibliopegy
books, fond of - philobiblic
bookseller - bibliopole
bookseller (rare books) - bibliopole
border surrounding a
shield (Heraldry) - bordure
bordering on every side - circumjacent
bore - macrologist
born again - renascent
born blind & helpless (chick) - nidicolous
born well-developed - nidifugous
botanise - herborise
both kinds, of; b.ways, acting- amphoteric
bovine - taurine
bow down, reverence - lowt
bow, reverence - obeisance
bow-legged - valgus, scrod-legged, straddly-bandy
oxer’s attendant;
backer - bottle-holder
boxing, French (fists, feet, head) - savate
bracelets, pert. to - armillary
brag, bluster - rodomontade
bragging, blustering - vapours
Brahma-day, 4,320 million years - kalpa
brain, action of, esp. uncons - cerebration
brain’s seat of sensation - sensorium
brambles, the study
of - batology
branched - ramose
brand new - fire-new
brat - bantling
brawl, maltreat - rough-house
bread - rooty
(Mil.)
bread, embodied in - impanate
bread, unleavened - azym(e)
break (to) - rive
break an entry - crack
a crib
break to smaller pieces - fractionate
break, pound, grind small - bray
breakable, fragile - frangible
breaking-off - abruption
breast (next to ribs) - brisket
breath - halitus
breath, shortness of - anhelation
breathe long & deep - suspire
breathing diffic. lying down - orthopnoea
breathing, difficulty in - dyspnoea
breathing, temp. cessation of - apnoea
breeze, light; dupe/tool - cat’s
paw
bribe - vails
brick-red - testaceous
bridle, restrain; toss the head - brank
bridle/bit/stirrup-maker - lorimer
brief, but comprehensive - compendious
brindled - tabby
bring forth young (sheep, goat) - yean
bringing inwards - afferent
brisk; (well) - perk;
bobbish
bristle - birse
bristly - awny, hispid, horrent, strigous, -gose
bristly - setose,
setous, setaceous
bristly; indecent - scabrous
brittle - brickle,
spalt
broad-bladed
broadest part of ship’s
bottom - bilge
bronze colour, of a shining - aeneous
brook, little - rill;
runnel, runlet
brothels, pert. to - lupanarian
brotherhood - confraternity
brownish with darker spots - brindle(d)
brownish-purple - puce
bruise/beat, to - contuse
brutalise - imbrute
bucket in well - kibble
Buddh. memorial shrine - stupa,
tope
Buddhist priest - bonze
buds, to put forth - gemmate
buffoon, zany - merry-andrew
building, pert. to - tectonic
built of beams, not arches/vaults- trabeate
bullfighter’s dart w.
streamer - banderilla
bullfighting, of - tauromachian
bully (to) - ballyrag,
hector
bumpkin - joskin,
rube
bundle of brushwood - bavin
bungle; tedious fellow - foozle
burden, pack - fardel
burden; tax (cattle pasturing) - agistment
burdensome (used with ‘care’) - carking
buried - graven
burn - fare
as fire
burn suddenly - deflagrate
burn, set fire to - swale,
sweal
burning, roasting - ustulation
burrowing - fossorial
businessman, usual,
no art - Babbitt
buskin - cothurnus
bustling, fussy - spoffish
busy - unleisured
butler, steward - major-domo
buttermilk and water
(Orkney and Shetland) - bland
buttery (adj) - butyraceous
button accordion - bandoneon
buying, act of - emption
by-work - parergon
cabinet (ornamental) - chiffonier
cage (for fish/lobsters) - corf
calf, of the - sural
call names, to - becall
call to witness - obtest
calling loudly/insistently - clamant
callous, make; sear w. hot iron - cauterise
calumniate, defame - traduce
can, small - cannikin
cancelling; cutting back - recision
candle-maker - chandler
cannibalism - anthropophagy
cannon, short - carronade
cannonballs linked by chain - angel
shot
cannot be dissolved/melted - infusible
canvas, coarse - burlap
caparisoned - barded
cape, headland - naze,
ness
caper, leap; to caper - capriole,
gambade
carbon dioxide, deficiency of - acapnia
care…, don’t - …a
stiver
cared - rought
caress, fondle - ingle
cargo vessel, Dutch,
2-masted - bilander
cargo, lading - lastage
carnivorous - zoophagous
carping - captious
carping criticism - zoilism
carried, easily - portative
carry away (wrongfully), to - asport
carry, bear, transport - tote
carrying off by force - abreption
cart, low, for heavy goods - dray
cart, shaft of - thill
cart, victims to guillotine - tumbrel
carved on the surface - intagliated
caryatid, male equiv. of - telamon
case for needles, threads &c. - hussif
case shot to damage sails - langrage,
-grel
cask - puncheon,
tun
cask, small - barrico
casket - pyxis
cast-off skin - slough
castrate - emasculate,
evirate
cat (esp. female, old) - grimalkin
cat, cry like - mewl,
miaul, waul
catarrh; head-cold - coryza
catch fish with the hands - guddle
cat-lover - ailurophile
cattle thief - abactor
cattle-enclosure - bawn
cause loss/injury to - damnify
cause to contract - constringe
cave - antre
cave, pert. to - spelean
cavity - antrum
cease, cause to cease - surcease
celery, wild - smallage
celestial - supernal
censure; blame - dyslogy
central - omphalic
centre of attention - cynosure
centre of gravity, pert. to - barycentric
centre, tending towards - centripetal
chair (for carrying Pope) - gestatorial
ch.
challenge - tasking
champagne & stout - black
velvet
chance, depending on - aleatory
change shade - gradate
change, able to cause - alterant,
alterative
changeable - moonish
channel, narrow - kyle
chaplet, fillet, wreath - anadem
charge with a crime - delate
chariot, two-horse
(Roman) - biga
charity, given in - eleemosynary
charm, fetish - ju-ju
chase (to); shout; hunt - chevy
chat, to - coze
chattering, prattle - bavardage
cheap, open-air seats
at sports ground - bleachers
cheat (to) - hocus,
widgeon
cheat, rogue - faitor
cheek, of - malar
cheek, pert. to - malar
cheekbone, arch of - zygomatic
arch
cheeks - lears
cheese, pert. to - caseous
chestnut-coloured - badious
chew (tobacco) - chaw
chew, eat - manducate
chide - objurgate,
threap
chief/leader (of chorus) - coryphaeus
chief’s barge or
chilblain - kibe
child - kinchin
child in its 1st month - chrisom-child
child, N. American Indian - papoose
child’s white baptism robe - chrisom
chin, of the - genial,
mental
Chinese - Seric
chiropodist - pedicure
chirp, make scraping sound - stridulate
chirping, scraping (grassh.) - stridulant
chivalous person; spirited horse - bayard
choice, select, rare - recherché
Christ - Prince
of Peace
Christ’s renunciation div. nature - kenosis
church, for (hat, clothes) - go-to-meeting
churchyard - God’s
acre
circle, small select - coterie
circlet (gold, gems) - coronal
circumlocution - circumbendibus, periphrasis
cite, quote as proof - adduce
civet cat - linsang
civil officials, educated people - effendi
claim, make formal to - revendicate
clattering, rainy
blast - blatter
claw/pincer (crab, lobster) - chela
clay - argil
cleanliness, one obsessed w.- ablutomane
cleansing - abluent;
detersion
clear - limpid
clear, bright, evident - luculent
climber (outs. tall buildings)- stegophilist
climbing (plants) - scandent
climbing, adapted for - scansorial
cloak, long with hood (sold, trav) - capote
clonus - spasm
close examiner - scrutator
close-pressed tgthr, not united- adpressed
clot, thick fluid - grume
cloth, inspector of - alnager
clothe in mail - loricate
clothe; invest, supply - endue
clothes, of - vestiary
cloud flying; driving mist - rack
clouds, study of - nephology
cloven-footed - bisculcate
clown, circ, bungler, white-faced- auguste
club-foot; club-footed - kyllosis;
taliped
clumsiness; tactlessness - maladdress
clumsy; tactless - gauche
cluster-pine - pinaster
coal-dust - culm
coarse, rough & hard - hask
cobwebby - araneous
cod, pert. to - gadoid
coddle, pamper - cosher
coetanous - coeval
co-heir; co-heirship - parcener;
parcenary
coin punched out, remainder plate- scissel
coin, blank before stamping - planchet
coins/money, pert. to - numm(ul)ary
cold
north/northeasterly wind (
cold water, applic. of, to sleeper - cold
pig
cold, icy - gelid
cold; cold, causing - algid;
algific
cold-blooded - ectothermic
collect, store - garner
collection choice passages - chrestomathy
collector matchbox labels- phillumenist
colour, chang diff. lights - versicoloured
colour, having the same - isochromatic
comb, to (wool &c.) - card
combative - agonistic
comb-shaped - ctenoid
come to nothing - worth
to nought
comfortable; good - bein
command, pert. to - mandative
commanding - jussive
commission (currency exchange) - agio
commotion, confusion - kippage
company making
unwelcome bid to take over another - black
knight
compass-point - rhumb
compensation for delay vessel- demurrage
compensation/consolation - solatium
competitive - emulous
complaint - querimony
complete - thorough-paced
complexion - blee
complexion, colour - blee
compliment, kissing
hand - baisemain
compromise, one who rejects- maximalist
concave and convex - anticlastic
concave or convex all over - synclastic
concerning, about - anent
concise but comprehensive - compendious
conclusion of speech - peroration
concurrence, coincidence - consilience
condemn - exprobate
condemn as spurious - obelise
condense, thicken - inspissate
condensed reading-matter - pemmican
cone (of pine etc.) - strobile
confine, coop up, pen - corral,
immew
confiscate - escheat
conflict 2 protagonists, struggle - agon
conflict, one in grip of inner - agonistes
confronting - abutting
confuse, perplex - embrangle
confused - moidered,
mithered
confusing reflection, phantom - eidolon
confusion - hubble-bubble,
hurly-burly
confusion - hurry-skurry
congested city - wen
congratulate - felicitate
conjoin - alligate
conjunction, opposition (astro) - syzygy
connecting (link) - annectent
connecting, linking - annectent
conscience - still
small voice
conscious, fühlt, denkt
nicht - anoetic
consciousness, the threshold of - limen
conscription - blood-tax
consequence, result - corollary
consider carefully - perpend
consistent (with, to) - consonant
conspiracy - covin
conspiracy, small party - cabal
constipated - costive
constipation - adstriction
container for liquids
- bidon
contemporary (N) - coeval
contemptible - hilding
contentious - litigious
continual repetition - battology
contradict, deny - gainsay
contradict, prone to - contradictious
contradiction in terms - antilogy
control Church by state - Erastianism
converges, touches, not united - connivent
converse confidentially - collogue
convert (a) - proselyte
conveying outward/away - efferent
convict (to) - attaint
convivial, erotic - anacreontic
cooked simply and garnished
with fresh veg. and herbs -
copse - spinn(e)y
copyist, secretary - amanuensis
coral-red - coralline
cork being drawn, sound of - cloop
cork, plug - stopple
corky - suberic,
subereous, -rose
corner, edge - cantle
corporation debt,
represented by the bonds it has issued - bonded
debt
corpulent - abdominous
correcting; a corrective - corrigent
corruption, abuse of office - malversation
cosy, make o.s. - cose
cough (N, V) - hoast
cough (up) - expectorate
cough, of a - tussal,
tussive
counteract. inflammation - antiphlogistic
counterfeit money;
money obtained by official corruption - boodle
country, live in the - rusticate
court (untrustworthy) friend - ami
de cour
courteousness - comity
courtesan - bona
roba
covering (adj.) - tectorial
coward, weakling - meacock
cowhouse - shippen,
-ppon
cows, place for milking - loaning
crack through too rapid cooling - dunt
crackle, as heated salts - decrepitate
crackle, snap - crepitate
craving for strange foods - parorexia
crawler - lick-spittle
crayfish, science of - astacology
craze for buying things - oniomania
crazy - crack-brained
crease, fold, wrinkle - ruck
Creator - demiurge
creeping - repent,
reptant
creeping (plant)- sarmentous/-ose/-aceous
creeping (skin-disease) - serpiginous
crescent-shaped - lunate(d)
crescent-shaped
sand-dune - barkhan
criminal (eccles.) - criminous
criminal intent, having
- dolose
crimp, plait - goffer
cripple - lamiger
criterion - metewand,
meteyard
critic, severe - Aristarch
critical (period in human life)- climacteric
criticism, censure - animadversion
crocodile bird - trochilus
crop out - basset
crossed by bars or lines - cancellated
cross-examination, pert. to - elenctic
cross-eyed - skend,
glee-eyed
cross-like - crucial
crosswise - transverse
crowded, close-set (bot.) - stipate
cruel; cruelty - spitous;
immanity
cruelty and rapine - bashibazoukery
crumbles easily - friable
crush someone’s hat
over his eyes, to -
crush, squeeze (to) - scruze
crust of flaky scales - scurf
cry down (actor) - explode
cry like a crow - crake
cry like a sheep or
calf - blat
crypt, vault - undercroft
cudgel - alpeen
cudgel, thrash, belabour - drub,
fustigate
cunning, sly - leery
cupboard, wardrobe - almirah
curable - sanable
curio, small - bibelot
curl, to; to plait; to wrinkle - frounce
curlew - whaup
curlew, little - whimbrel
currant bun - barmbrack
currency
currency
currency
curse - malediction,
malison
curse (to); detest - execrate
curtain over doorway - portière
curtain-rod - tringle
curvature - flexure
curve, S-shaped - ogee
curved inwards - incurvate
cushion-like; pillowy - pulvinate
custom; habit - assuetude
customary - consuetudinary
cut away (bckground. relief sculp)- abated
cut away part of (end of bone) - resect
cut down expenses - retrench
cut in small pieces - hash
cut off - exscind
cut off prematurely - prescind
cut out - excise,
exsect
cut out the blubber of - flench
cut throat of - jugulate
cut unskilfully - haggle
cut, able to be - scissile
cut, capability of being - secability
cut/wound slightly - scotch
cutting off, violent separation - abscission
cutting, dividing - secant
dabble about noisily, to - barbote
dagger, hanger -
dagger, short/tapering/2-edged - an(e)lace
dagger, small - poniard
daily - diurnal,
quotidian
dais, low platform - estrade
dam - anicut
damage (&to), injury - scath(e)
dance for joy - tripudiate
dancing (adj.) - orchestic,
terpsichorean
dancing mania (
dancing-girl, Egyptian -
dangerous - parlous
dapple, variegate - flecker
dark - darkling,
thuster
dark kind of cherry - black
heart
dark, dreary, (gloomy) - dern,
(tenebrous)
dark, extremely - cimmerian
dark, grow; lie concealed - darkle
darken, (obscure) - blake,
(infuscate)
darkness - tenebrity,
tenebrosity, thesterness, mirkness
darkness, producing - tenebrific
darling - asthore
dart repeatedly - dartle
daunt, to; to dismay - amate
dawn - dayspring
dawn, before - antelucan
daylight-shunning - lucifugous
dead (gatheredíhis/her fathers)
- ad
patres
deadly; apparently dead - thanatoid
deafen, stun with dinning noise - deave
dear, pleasing - leve
death - cess,
latter end
death, discharge from life - quietus
death-carrying - lethiferous
deathlessness - athanasy
death-rattle, give - ruckle
debatable - mootable
debility - atony,
atonicity
debris, loose, on rocky slope - scree
debt (another’s copper/brass)- aes
alienum
debtor in sanctuary Holyrood- abbey-laird
decade - decenniad,
decennium
decamp, abscond - levant
decay, general (by age) - consenescence
decay, weakening - labefaction
decayed - carious
deceit - cozenage
deceit, roundabout means - indirection
deceitful - cautelous
deceive - illude
deceive, use shifts and tricks - chicane
deception - hocus-pocus
decoction - apozem
decorated ceiling - plafond
decoration, embellishment - exornation
decreasing - decrescent
decree - fiat
deep sea fishing ground - haaf
deep, too much so to sound - plumbless
deeply guttural (sound) - faucal
deer-like; fawn-coloured - cervine
defeat (to) - scomfit
defeat oppon. with their policy - dish
defecate, (of birds) - stercorate,
(mute)
defecate/urinate - ease
nature
defence - propugnation
defiantly - acock
degrade; reduce to animal - embrute
deguerpit
deification - apotheosis
dejected, cast down - abattu
delay (to) - forslow
delaying, cautious - cunctative,
Fabian
delirium - phrenesis
dell, open space in wood - dingle,
slade
demigod (Polynesian) - aitu
demon, evil - afrit
demoniac, one possessed - energumen
demure; over-precise - mim
denial; refusal - denegation
deny, contradict - disaffirm
deny, renounce - abnegate
dependent, accidental - contingent
depot for slaves - barracoon
depressed, overwhelmed - accablé
depression,
melancholy - the
black dog
deprive of bark/husk/peel - decorticate
deprive of spirit/courage - disanimate
deprive, strip - divest
deputy, substitute - locum-tenens
derailed, be - leave
the metal
descent; military retreat - katabasis
desert (to) - tergiversate
desert-inhabiting - eremic
desire (sensual) - appentence
desire (to) - desiderate
desire run away home - drapetomania
desire/appetite, of - orectic
desirous of pleasing - complaisant
despair - wanhope
despise - contemn
despise, disparage, slander - vilipend
despoil, plunder - spoliate
dessert: ice-cream
frozen in a round mould - bombe
destitute - necessitous
destructive metabolism - katabolism
detract - derogate
deviate from a set course - yaw
device for pulling
boots off - boot-jack
device for pulling
boots on - boot-hook
devisage
devour hungrily; be v. hungry - raven
devour, swallow greedily - engorge
dewy - roscid
diag. over should. chest & back- scarfwise
diagonally (Heraldry)
- bendwise
dialect, vulg. or
provincial - patois
diamond figure - lozenge
diamond, flat and thin - lasque
dice - Devil’s
bones
dice, the 6 on - sice
die - go
west, go to glory, hop the perch
die - swelt,
sterve, turn up one’s toes
diet (no sugar, starch, fat) - bant
diet, luxurious & expensive in - apician
difficult to control - hard-mouthed
digress; stray, wander about - divagate
digressive - discursive
diligent, assiduous - sedulous
diminution of swelling - detumescence
dingy, sombre, brown - fuscous
dining, science/art of - aristology
dinner, relating to - prandial
dip lightly, drop gently into water - dap
dirge - coronach
dirt, excrement - ordure
disagreeable, bad-tempered - frampold
disappointing prophet/ally - Balaam
discharge (thin, from a wound) - gleet
discharge at mouth (stream) - disembogue
discharge of mucus - blennorrhoea
disciplinarian - martinet
disclose - unbosom
discontent - heartburning
discontinue, but not dissolve - prorogue
discordant; abhorrent - absonant
discourse at length - descant
discuss - mell
disease of apples - bitter-pit
disease, fits of somnolence - narcolepsy
disease-causing - morbific,
pathogenic
disembark - debark
disembodied - discarnate
disembowel - deviscerate,
exenterate, gralloch
disfigured by weeping
- beblubbered
disgrace; (to) - shenship;
shend
disgust, nauseate - scunner
disgusted by, to be - one’s
gorge rises at
dish, large flat oval, serving meat - ashet
dishonesty - improbity
dishonour, disgrace (to) - honish
dislike; aversion - dyspathy
dislocate - luxate
dismal look - Lenten
face
dismember - discerp
dismiss in disgrace - cashier
dismiss; resign; abdicate - demit
dismissed, be (suitor) - get
the mitten
dismissed, to be - to
get one’s books
disorganise - muss
disperse - disperple
dispersion (of Jews) - diaspora
dispirited, dejected - chap-fallen
display, make public - blazon
disposed (Bib)
- affectioned
dispossess - expropriate
disputatious - contradictious
disreputable, rakish - raffish
dissenting - dissentient
dissident - frondeur
dissimilar, make (sounds) - dissimilate
distress (to), put into difficulty - straiten
distress, causing - afflictive
distressing - carking
distribution - repartition
disturbance bodily motion - ataxy
disturbance of the
soil - bioturbation
disuse, discontinuance - desuetude
dither - halper
divest - denude
divide into small pieces - scantle
divided (nearly) to the base - partite
divided in 2 by deep cleft - bifid
divided up, that may/must be - partible
divided, incapable of being - intrenchant
divided, irregularly - alloiostrophos
dividing with remainder - aliquant
dividing without remainder - aliquot
divination by arrows
- belomancy
divination by lots - sortilege
divination by plants,
esp. the leaves of the sage and fig - botanomancy
divination, of - mantic
divine & human- theandric,
-anthropic
divine inspiration- entheasm,
theopneusty
divinely inspired - entheate
division into 2 parts - dichotomy
do perfunctorily - scamp
doctrine Christ mere man- psilanthropism
doctrine non-violence
(Hindu) - ahimsa
doctrine that the
world is good but not the best possible - bonism
dodge fulfilling an obligation - welch
dog-like goblin,
portends death - barghaist
dominant influence - hegemony
Dominican - Black
Friar
dormant, inactive, resting - quiescent
dormitory (esp. monastic)- dorter,
dortour
dorsal - tergal
dose/draught forced on animal - drench
dot, stroke, accent - tittle
doting on husband (of wife) - maritorious
doting on wife - uxorious
dotted - punctate
double - geminate,
geminous
double vision - diplopia
double-bodied
(Heraldry) - bicorporate
doubles chances of
success- belt-&-braces
doubling stakes on losing - martingale
doubt - dubiety,
dubitation
doubt, to - dubitate
dove, pert. to - columbine
down, a going - degression
downy - pappose,
pappous
doze - zizz
drag - hale
drag along the ground - harl
dragon, wingless - lindworm
dragonflies, May-flies, etc. - neuropteral
drain of blood - exsanguinate
draw, paint in watercolours - limn
draw, paint, engrave, in dots - stipple
drawing inward or together - adducent
drawing liquor - birling
drawl - haw
dread of the unknown - neophobia
dream - sweven
dream/vision, poetic descrip. of - aisling
dream-time - alchera,
alcheringa
dreamy - wool-gathering
dregs, lees - draff
dregs, refuse, sediment
- lees,
tailings
dress fabric, light,
silky - barège
dress gaudily - bedizen,
dizen
dress, (decorate) - tog,
(trick)
dressmaker - mantua-maker
dress-shirt - boiled
shirt
drink between meals - bever
drink hard; squander
- bezzle
drink to excess - fuddle,
swizzle
drink, warm, given to sick - caudle
drinking-companion - compotator
drinking-cup, large, Greek - scyphus
drop, trickle - driblet
dropsy, diffused - anasarca
dross, to reduce to - scorify
drudges - hewers
wood & drawers water
drug Þ forgetfulness of grief - nepenthe
drug smuggler who has
swallowed his cargo - body
packer
drum beat - rataplan
drunk - bevvied,
bottled, ebrious
drunkard, reveller - bacchanal, bacchant, borachio, soaker,
toper
drunkenness - ebriety
dry habitat, flourishing
in - xerophilous
dry habitat, of - xeric
dry up - arefy,
ensear, exsiccate
dry up into a barky
crust - barken
dry with incipient decay (pear) - sleepy
dry, roast, parch (to) - torrefy
dry, withered - sear,
sere
drying - desiccant,
(de)siccative
dryness - siccity
dubious, shady - louche
due to external causes - xenogenous
dull, make/become - hebetate
dull, sad - dowie
dull, unemotional - bovine
dung (of) - stercoral,
stercoraceous
dung-eating - scatophagous
dung-hill - mixen
dupe - geck,
gudgeon
dusk, at - entre
chien et loup
dusky, dull - subfusc
dusty, powdery - pulverous,
pulverulent
duty - dever
duty, pert. to - deontic
dwarfish person - agate
dwarfism - achondroplasia
dying, about to die - moribund
dyspeptic - cacogastric
eager to taste/enjoy - lickerish
eagerly desirous - appetent
eagle,
eaglewood - agalloch,
agila
early warning, sign - prodrome
early, morning- matutinal
Earth, produced by the - terrigenous
Earth’s atmosphere, science of- aeronomy
Earth’s heavy core - barysphere
Earth’s rocky crust - lithosphere
earthen, made of clay - fictile
earthenware pot - cruse
earthly - sublunary,
terrene
earthquake - seism
earthworm, pert. to - lumbricoid
ear-wax - cerumen
easily influenced - ductile
eat gluttonously - guttle
eat voraciously - gormandise
eat without appetite - pingle
eatable - comestible
ebbing, flowing back - refluent
echoless - anechoic
ecological - biocoenotic
edible for man - esculent
edit, correct, censor
- blue-pencil
effect, not taking - inoperative
effeminate - sissified
effeminately luxurious - Sardanapalian
egg-carrying - oviferous
egg-laying - oviparous
elbow; breed short-legged sheep- ancon
elegance of literary style - concinnity
elephant goad - ankus
elephant-driver - mahout
elongated towards the poles - prolate
eloquent - silver-tongued
elude, evade, give the slip - bilk
emaciation due to disease - tabefaction
embezzle, pilfer - defalcate,
peculate
embitter, to; to irritate - acerbate
embrace (to) - clip,
halse, inarm
embrocation - liniment
emerging (Aphr. from sea) - anadyomene
emotional instability - lability
encircle; surround - enlace
enclosed land surround. house - curtilage
encouraging, inciting - hortative
end in itself, being an - autotelic
ending abruptly, as if bitten off- premorse
endure - thole
energy, force - vim
engaged (teeth in wheels) - in
mesh
enjoyment, devoted search
for- apolaustic
enlargement - ampliation
enlist (forcibly) - impress
enrapture - imparadise
enslave - bethrall
ensnare, beguile - trapan
entangle; confuse;
perplex - embrangle
entirely - flesh
and fell
entrails (of deer) - humbles
entrance - ingress
entwine within each other - intervolve
envelope, covering - involucre
environment - circumambiency
Epiphany gift - befana
equal law/rights - isonomy
equal time, of - isochronal,
-ous
equal; companion - compeer
equivalent, with equal force - equipollent
equivocate, use trickery - palter
erection, persistent - priapism
Eskimo dog - malamute
esquire - armiger
essence; quibble,
distinction - quiddity
establish in a fixed residence - domicile
estimating
straightness by looking along a row of poles - boning
eternal - aeonian
ethics - deontics
evening flight (woodcock) - roding
even-toed - artiodactyl
everlasting - perdurable,
sempiternal
everyone, good & bad - thread
& thrum
evil spirit, nightmare - incubus
evil, baleful - malefic
evil, injury - bale
evil, turning aside - apotropaic
evil-doer - budmash
exact copy - apograph
exacted, capable of being - exigible
exactly, directly - slick
example, exemplar - paradigm
excepting - bating
excess - nimiety
excessive fluency of speech - volubility
excessive, beyond reason- unconscionable
excessively - consumedly
excision - resection
excited, wildly - corybantic
excitement from 1st success - fleshment
exclude - debar
exclude from hopes salvation - reprobate
ex-convict (served term) - emancipist
excrement (of larvae) - frass
exhausted - effete,
fordone, forspent
exhaustion (from hunger) - inanition
exhibit (dog) at a show - bench
exhortation (
expansion, capable of - expansile
expansive - expatiatory
expel; excrete - egest
expense (pert. to) - sumptuary
experience, beyond scope of - metempiric
expiatory - piacular
explain - explicate
explain away speciously - gloze
over
explain; extract, to - enucleate
expose to the sun’s rays - insolate
express detestation for - conspue
expulsion - ejectment
extemporised - autoschediastic
extravagantly - rantantingly
extravert and introvert, between- ambivert
exult, rejoice - jubilate,
sing the Te Deum
eyebrow, pert. to - superciliary
eyelashes - cilia
eyes small/half-shut - pink-eyed
eyes, with protruding - lobster-eyed
facial features - lineament
fade, wither - welk
faeces, of/like - stercoraceous,
stercoral
failure to retain (urine) - irretention
fair (Church) - kermis
faith, of little - minifidianist
faithful - leal
falcon (female) - lanner,
saker
falcon (male) - lanneret
fall down, droop - prolapse
fall early, tendency to - caducity
fall prostrate - measure
one’s length
falling early - caducous
false rumour - canard
false, apostate; craven - recreant
falsehood - falsage
fame, renown - kudos
fanciful, wild - chimerical
fancy box for holding
sweets - bonbonnière
fan-shaped - flabellate
fantastical dish/item - kickshaw
farewell - valediction
farm-servant - hind
farm-shed, open front - linhay,
linney
farmyard - barton
Fascist - Blackshirt
fastened securely - lockfast
fastidious, finicky - finigraphical
fat - in
flesh, pinguid
fat and ruddy - blowzy
fat, clumsy - squab
fat, fit for killing- in
pride/prime of grease
fat, squat - fubsy
fatal - mortiferous
fatal disease of
oysters - bonamiasis
fat-buttocked - steatopygous
fate - skift
fate, destiny - kismet
fatty - aliphatic, sebaceous
fault - demerit
favourite (a), darling - minion
fawn, flatter - gloze
fear (to) - redoubt
fear falling from
high place- bathophobia
fear of (being by) o.s. - autophobia
fear of beards - pogonophobia
fear of being buried alive - taphephobia
fear of crossing roads - dromophobia
fear of crowds - ochlophobia
fear of dogs - cynophobia
fear of open spaces - kenophobia
fear of sharp/pointed objs.- aichmophobia
fear of slime - blennophobia
fear of thunder - brontophobia
fear of thunder & lightning - astraphobia
fear of wind/draughts - anemophobia
fear thunder & lightning - keraunophobia
fear, sudden - affrightment
fearful - ferly
fearless - impavid
feast, merrymaking - junket
feathered legs,
having (birds, poultry) - booted
feathery - plumose,
plumous
feel, examine by hand - palpate
feeling/suffering, capable of - passible
fellow/chap - cove,
gink
ferocious, strange; leopard - catamountain
fertile - childing
fervid, eager - perfervid
fester - canker,
rangle
festive occasion; to feast - wassail
fetter
(N, V) - gyve
fever - pyrexia
fever, delirium on board ship - calenture
fez - tarbouche
fib, trifling lie - tarradiddle
fiddler - gutscraper
field - glebe
fields, pert. to - campestral
fierce, threatening - truculent
fiercely aggressive - bare-/white-knuckled
fiery - hotspurred
fighting with shadows - sciamachy
figurative language - tropology
filings, chips - swarf
filling up of a deficiency - anaplerosis
filling; fullness - impletion
film/scum on liquors - pellicle
film-director (creator genre) - auteur
filth, dirt; to defile, to foul - slotter
filth, refuse, sewage - sullage
filth; bulging part of a cask - bilge
financially unsound
(stocks, securities) - blue-sky
find out by skilful means - expiscate
fine (to); (deprive) - amerce;
(mulct)
fine for shedding
blood (Old English law) - blood-wit(e)
fine sensitivity, pert. to - epicritic
fine/minute as a hair - capillary
fingerprints, science of - dactylography
finish (bottle of wine) - buzz
fire from dry wood by friction - needfire
fire, of or like - igneous
fire-enduring - salamandrine
firework, revolving - girandole
first created man - protoplast
first fruits (milk)- beestings,
op. strippings
fish (sea bream) - sar,
sargo(s), sargus
fish for eels - sniggle
fish, pert. to; resembling- ichthyic;
-thyoid
fish, spent; salmon has just spawned- kelt
fishing net; to fish with… - seine
fishing, of - halieutic
fishing-boat - dory
fishing-smack, small
- bawley
fishpond - piscina
fissures/cracks on surface - rimose,
-ous
fist - nieve
fitting of artifical parts - prosthesis
fix, in a - up
a gum-tree
flag, triangular, colours yacht - burgee
flail, swipple of - swingle
flap against mast - slat
flap, fold - lappet
flash (to) - fulgurate
flask, 2-handled; vessel holy oil- ampulla
flatten - planish
flatter, cajole - blandish
flattery, blarney - soft
sawder, soft soap
flattery, deceit - glozing
flawless - indefectible
flaxen-haired - tow-headed
flay, excoriate - deglubate
fleeting, transient - evanescent,
fugacious
flesh, muscle, of - sarcous
flesh-coloured, blood-red - incarnadine
flexible, pliant - limber
flickering, licking - lambent
flighty - bird-brained,
bird-witted
flighty person - flibbertigibbet
floating on surface - supernatant
flog - thwang
flogging - vapulation
flogging, pert. to - baculine
flourish (after signature) - paraph
flourish of trumpets - sennet,
tucket
flow tumblingly, be choppy - popple
flow with a murmuring sound - purl
flower, never-fading, fabled - amarant(h)
flower, without - ananthous
flowering late in season - serotine
flower-like - anthoid
flowing round - circumfluent
flowing together - confluence,
conflux
flowing together; uniting - confluent
flows out, that which - efflux
fluster, perplex - pother
fly (able to) - volitant
flying - volant
fog, smoke -
fold, folded condition - plication
folk-song on country
matters - bothy
ballad
following naturally - consectaneous
following; easily led - sequacious
fondle in arms, as baby - dandle
food (for the mind) - pabulum
food, averse to - apositic
food, dainty - cates
food, supplying - alimental
food, victuals - vivers
food/drink, instinctí seek- alimentiveness
fool - doak,
dulbert, lobcock, widgeon
foolish - dill
foot-&-mouth disea. - contagious
aphthae
foothold (gain a) - (effect
a) lodgement
footless - apodal
footman; livery servant - flunkey
footpad, thief - knight
of industry
footpath between buildings - ginnell
footstool (or for knees) - hassock
footway on bridge - banquette
foppish - dandiacal
for recogn/warn/attract (colours)- sematic
force - raundon
force up from the throat - hawk
force,
forced labour - begar
forcing to conform - Procrustean
forearm, of the - cubital
forehead-band - frontlet
foreign; barbarous- uplandish;
tramontane
foreign-looking - peregrinate
foreignness, outlandishness - peregrinity
foreman (of gang) - ganger
forerunner - harbinger
foresee - previse
foresight - prevision
foreskin - prepuce
forest greenery (cover for deer) - vert
forest, coniferous - taiga
forestry - sylviculture
foretaste - prelibation
forfeiture (of estate/life) - attainder
fork (farm) - graip
fork (to) - divaricate
form(ed) into a globe/ball - conglobate
formal address (Pope- clergy) - allocution
formal, important - full-dress
former - quondam
fortified house - bastle
fossilised excrement (animals) - coprolite
foul, turbid - feculent
fountain-nozzle - ajutage
four-rowed barley - bigg
fox, small, huge ears - fennec
fox-like - alopecoid
fox-like, cunning - vulpine
fragment - cantlet
fragment - scantlet
fragments, splinters - flinders
fragrant oil from rose-petals - attar
framework, structure - compages
fraternity, fellowship - sodality
fraudulent - covinous
fray, brawl - wigs
on the green
free from pauperism - depauperise
freehold estate - allodium
(opp. feudum)
freemason’s son - lewis
French country-house
- bastide
fret, murmur - repine
frighten, to - affright(en)
frightened - ghasted
fringed - fimbriate
froggy - ranarian
frogs, toads, newts, pert. to - batrachian
from hand to mouth - au
jour le jour
frosted in appearance - pruinose
froth of fermenting
liquor - barm
fruit growing - pomiculture
fruit, e.g. pineapple - anthocarp
fruit, without - acarpous
fruit-bearing - frugiferous
fry, scorch; a curl - frizzle
full powers, having - plenipotentiary
fun/mirth, opposed to - antithalian
funeral dirge - coronach
funeral ode - epicede,
epicedium
fungus (of mushroom family) - agaric
fur (ceremonial costume) - miniver
fur, hair, wool - pelage
furniture, piece of fixed - fitment
furrow on surface of brain - sulcus
furrowed, (grooved) - striated,
(sulcate)
fuse, combine (2 diff. into 1) - conflate
fusty - frowsty
gad about (idly) - fizgigg,
(trapes)
gadfly, horsefly - cleg
gaiety - riancy
gallery, arcade, balcony - loggia
gang slaves, tied together - coffle
gangrene/necrosis, suffer from- sphacelate
gap - hiatus,
lacuna
gape, open - dehisce
garland, wreath - lei
garnet, precious - almandine
garrotter’s
confederate - backstall
gaudy, flashy - meretricious
gaunt - rawboned
gaze intently at - avise
general, universal - ecumenical
generated by water - undigenous
genial conversation - flow
of soul
genius & fool - mattoid
genius, one’s good - agathodaimon
get - hent
gibe, jeer - gird
giddy - swimy
gift (inaugural) - hansel,
handsel
gift from/to God - deodate
gift, of the nature of - munerary
giggling girl - giglet
gin - blue
ruin
gird, encompass - cincture
gird, to - accinge
girl - colleen
give - cun,
lene
give concrete form to - incarnate
give form/life to - inform
given too difficult a part - overparted
glapit
glass, drinking, large - rummer
glassy - hyaline,
vitreous
glittering - clinquant
gloomy, dark - Acherontic
gloomy, phlegmatic - saturnine
glue, like - colloid,
gelatinous
gluttonous - edacious
gluttony - edacity,
gulosity
gnawing, (rodentlike) - rodent,
(rosorial)
goat, wild - markhor
goat-like - caprine,
hircine
goats, pert. to - capric,
caprid
goblin, spectre - bodach
God - The
Ancient of Days
going backwards; to go back - retrograde
gold coin - bezant
gold, pert. to - auric
gold-coloured - aurated
golden - aurelian
gondolier’s song - barcarole
good digestion, of/having - eupeptic
good fortune - seel
good/established order - eutaxy
good-looking - circassian
good-natured fellow - bon
diable
goodness, kindness, charity - beneficence
goose-flesh - horripilation
gorge, deep - barranca
gossip - quidnunc
Gothamite - Abderite
(from Abdera)
gourd - cucurbit
gouty (feet) - podagral,
-rous, -ric(al)
gouty deposit (teeth, joints) - tophus
grand piano, small,
slightly bigger than baby grand - boudoir
grand
grandee; provincial governor - adelantado
grandfather, pert. to - aval,
avital
grandfather, relating to - avital
grandfather’s grandfather - tresaiel
grandparent, relating to - aval
graphite - plumbago,
blacklead
grasp - gripe
grasping, capable of - prehensile
grasses, study of - agrostology
grassy - graminious,
graminaceous
grating noise (& vi) - scroop
gratuity to ensure good will - douceur
great amount/number of - a
mort of
great king - padishah
greater, to (seem to) make - aggrandise
greedy, gluttonous - edacious
Greek calends - later
Lammas
Greek parliament - boule
green, abnormally - virescent
green, sickly - chlorotic
green; greenish - virid;
viridescent
greenish, pale - beryl
greetings; farewell - aloha
greyish - griseous
greyish-green - sage-green
greyish-yellow - isabelline
grief - tene
grievance - gravamen
grieve - erne
grimace, to - mop
and mow
grind coarsely - kibble
grind with the teeth - scranch,
scrunch
grinning, gaping - ringent
gripes - tormina
groove, channel; bevel, slope - chamfer
grooved, furrowed - vallecular,
-ate
grooved, striated - canaliculate(d)
grope - grabble
grossness - crassitude
grotesque - antic
grounds of gent’s country-house- policies
grow fat - batten
grow together, to - accrete
grow, put forth buds - bourgeon
growing (together into one) - accretion
growing together,a - concrescence
growing worse - ingravescent
growing; ever-increasing - accrescent
gruel, thin - skilly,
skilligalee
grumble, fret - grizzle,
grutch
guide - cicerone
guitar-like inst., Japanese, 3-stringed - samisen
gums, of the - gingival
gurgle (running water) - burble
gust of wind - flaw
H, formed like the letter - zygal
hack, mangle - hackle
haggle - chaffer,
higgle
hair, loss of - psilosis
hair, promoting growth of - trichogenous
hairless - depilate
hairless, smooth - glabrous,
-rate
hair-tuft on lower lip - imperial
hairy - crinite,
pilous, pilose
half - moiety
half-asleep - somnolescent
half-blind - purblind,
sand-blind
half-dead; dejected - alamort
half-score, a (10) - dicker
halo, aureole - nimbus
halter - Tyburn
tippet
halved - dimidiate
hamlet - thorp(e)
hammer (chairman’s) - gavel
hamstring (to) - hough,
hock
handle, having a - ansate
handle, semicircular
(kettle) - bail
hand-propelled - manumotive
hand-shaped - palmate
handsome - featous
hang trailing - draggle,
drail
hanging; suspended - pensile
happiness, producing - felicific
happy, at one - euthymic
harangue (a) - diatribe,
homily, philippic
harass with overwork - haze
harass, disturb - dretch
harass/compel by bullying - dragoon
hard put to it - hard
sted
harden - indurate
hardship - erumny
hare, pert. to - leporine
harem - seraglio
harm - grame,
scathe, dere
harmful, destructive - deleterious
harness, in - in
the traces
harpooner, chief - spektioneer
Harrowing of Hell (Byz. Art) - anastasis
hasten, pass swiftly - fleet
hasten; dispatch (to) - expedite
hasty - festinate
hat, broad-brimmed - sundown
hat, hard, felt - billycock
hatched immature, parents feed - altricial
haughty - hoity-toity
haughty person - bashaw
haul or lift up with rope - trice
having a convex front
(furniture) - bombé
having buds/knobs at
each extremity (Heraldry) - botoné
having no immediate
practical application (research)- blue-sky
having the appearance - beseen
hawker - cadger, tranter
hawklike, rapacious - accipitral
hawks, rel. to - accipitrine
head - mazzard,
noddle, sconce
head king - ardri(gh)
head of the Jesuits - Black
Pope
head to foot - cap-à-pie
head, belonging to - cephalic
head, crown of - noll
head; large apple - costard
headache - cephalalgy
heading straight for target - balladromic
headless - acephalous
headstone, finishing touch - copestone
heal; make sign of cross over - sain
healed, that may be - medicable
healing pool,
health-promoting - salutiferous
healthy state mind & body - eucrasy
heap - cumulus
heap, mass together - coacervate
heap, pile (waste
from coal-mine) - bing
heaped - acervate
heart-shaped - cordate
heat (to) - stove
heat, in (female) - oestrous
heather - ling
heaven - Land
o’ the Leal
Heaven, tree of (Asiatic) - ailanto,
-nthus
heavy (with child) - gravid
hedge, tree-branches interwoven - raddle
heel over - careen
height of fashion - bon
ton
heinous - flagitious
helmet: movable front part - aventail(e)
help, relieve; be
advantageous - bestead
helpful - adjuvant,
adminicular
hereness & nowness - haecceity
heresy - heterodoxy
heresy, leader/founder of - heresiarch
heretic’s garment (Inq.) - sanbenito
Hermes’ winged hat - petasus
hermitage (
herpetic - dartrous
herring partially
dried in smoke (esp.
hesitate - mammer
hesitate, vacillate; waffle - haver
high birth, not of - crestless
high, slit-shaped
neckline, extending onto shoulders - boat
neck
high, steep
river-bank - bluff
highest point, at its - culminant
highwayman - bandolero
hill, rounded - mamelon
hill, small - monticule
hill-fort, prehistoric - rath
hillock (small) - hummock
Himalayan sheep - bharal,
blue sheep
hinder/preclude - estop
Hindi name of
Hindu ascetic/hermit - sannyasi(n)
Hindu gods, drink of - amrita
Hindu woman’s secluded apartment - zenana
hint at - inkle
hissing - sibilant
hit hard - crump
hitch - contretemps
hog - suid
hog family, of the - suilline
hog, wild - babiroussa
hog, wild (Malay) - babirusa
hole emitting gases (volcano) - fumarole
hole for light in wall tower - dream-hole
hole for neck in guillotine - lunette
hollow like a pipe - fistular
hollow-faced - lantern-jawed
holy oil, unction - chrism
holy-water sprinkler - aspergill(um)
holy-water sprinkler - aspersoir
holy-water vessel - aspersory
(-sorium)
homestead - toft
honeycomb-like - faveolate,
favose, pitted
honeycomed, pitted - alveolate
honour, loss of - atimy
hook (large) - cleek
hooked - adunc
(-ate/d, -ous)
hooked - uncate
hooked at the end - uncinate
hook-shaped - unciform
hooved, hoof-shaped - ungulate
hooves, having uncloven - solidungulate
hooves, with padded (camel,
llama) - tylopod
hopelessness, breakdown rules - anomie
horn, resembling - kerasine
horned; shaped like horn - corniculate
horns, having - cornigerous
horns, without - acerous
horny, made of horn - corneous
horrify, to - agrize
horse, small (Spanish) - garron,
(jennet)
horse, swift - courser
hospitable - xenial
hostile - inimical
hostile, antagonistic - adversarial
house; nightcap - biggin
house-husband - betty
howl, yell - yawl
hubbub - charivari
huge - leviathan
hum, buzz, drone,
boom, to - bombilate,
bombinate
human anatomy - anthropotomy
human flesh as food - long
pig
human/animal form (god)- therianthropic
humble (to) - bring
low
humbug, pretentious
nonsense - blague,
blah
humpback - kyphosis
hump-backed - gibbous
hunch; hip - huckle
hungry - clammed,
fammelled, gant,
hungry - thirl,
wallow, yap
hungry, lean, weak - starveling
hungry, rapacious - esurient
hunted, fit to be; justifiable - warrantable
hunting, fit for - runnable
hunting, pert. to - venatic(al)
hurl, dash - ding
hurricane -
hurry; withdraw in haste - scuttle
hurtful - maleficient
hurtful, noxious - nocuous
hut (fishermen’s, hinds’) - bothy
hut, rough, shepherds’ - shieling
huts (encampment of) - hutment
hybrid (2 different
genera) - bigener
I adjust, I do not move (Chess) - j’adoube
ice-axe - piolet
idiot - cullion,
dotterel, honnikin
idle; superfluous - otiose
idler - fainéant,
flâneur
ignore presence of - cut
dead
ill-constructed - incondite
illegitimacy - bend-sinister
(left, up)
illiterate, totally - analphabetic
ill-luck - ames-ace
(lowest throw)
illuminate (manuscripts) - miniate
ill-will - animus
imaginary, visionary - airdrawn
imbecile; old-womanish - anile
imitation gold - oreide
immature, unfledged - callow
immodesty - impudicity
immortal, unfading - amaranthine
immortality - amritattva
impact - percussion
impartial - cross-bench
impartially - without
fear or favour
impasse, standstill - nonplus
impermanence, fleetingness - caducity
impervious - imperviable
important, very - of
vital concernment
importune for payment - dun
impotent/castrated person/animal - spado
impound - pinfold
impoverish - depauperate
impregnate; (of fishes) - fecundate;
(milt)
impress by stamping (coin) - incuse
imprison - lay/clap
by the heels
improve - meliorate
impudent fellow! - coxcomb,
jackanapes
in prison - in
bird
in the far outback,
beyond civilisation - beyond
the black stump
in two rows - bifarious
in vain - unthrivingly
inability to feel pleasure - anhedonia
inability to make decisions- aboulia
inability to recognise familiar - agnosia
inborn, innate - connate
incentive - incitation
incidental, subordinate - adjunctive
incipient internal
decay in fruit without external sign - blet
inclination, disposition - propensity
incline from the vertical, to - hade
incline to one side (Naut.) - list
income not reported
for tax purposes - black
money
incomplete, wanting sth - catalectic
incorrect use of word - catachresis
increase in size - auxesis
increasing - crescent
inculcate - infix
indefinitely - sine
die
indented; with the edge notched - crenate
independent existence (of God) - aseity
independent, autonomous - autocephalous
indifferent, uninterested - pococurante
indigestion - dyspepsia
indiscriminate slaughter - battue
indisputable, irrefutable - irrefragable
infectious - latching,
smittling
inference; conclusion - illation
inferior stuffs - linsey
(-woolsey)
infidel, misbeliever - miscreant
inflammation of testicles - orchitis
inflammatory - phlogistic
influence, to; something that… - leaven
inherent, innate, intrinsic - immanent
inherited property - hereditament
injurious, hurtful - nocent
inlaid work (furniture) - marqueterie
innermost shrine - penetralia
innkeeper - aubergiste, Boniface
inn-servant, who
helped pull off the guest’s boots - boot-catcher
inquiring, the act of - sciscitation
inquiry, proceeding by - zetetic
inquisitive, to be - poke
& pry
insatiable - stanchless
insect development, final stage - imago
insert (words) hastily - spatchcock
insert between others - intercalate
insipid - flummery
insolence, rudeness, disgrace - contumely
insolent, reproachful - contumelious
inspiration - afflatus,
inflatus
instigation - impulsion
instrument measuring chest - cyrtometer
instrument, evolved xylophone - marimba
intellect, of the - noetic
intellectual; capable of thought- dianoetic
intelligence - brain-sauce
intercessor - paraclete
interlocked (fingers) - interdigitate
intermarriage diff. races - miscegenation
interment in a barrow/mound - tumulation
interpose between combatants - stickle
interpret - descrive
interpreting, explanatory - hermeneutic
intertwine branches of - pleach
intestines (pert. to) - enteric
in-the-way - de
trop
intricate, difficult - gordian
introduction (to treatise) - prolegomena
introductory hymn, psalm - introit
inviolable - irrefrangible
invisible - viewless
involuntary defecation - encopresis
involved, complicated - involute
ironical - antiphrastic
irony, refined - asteism
irreg. rapid contraction heart - fibrillation
irritable - liverish
irritate, vex - roil
Isaac, binding of - akedah
island, small, flat in lake/river - ait
islet, esp. in a river - holm
issue forth from narrow pass - debouch
Italian - Ausonian
Italian cheese, mild
- bel
paese
itching; (violently)- pruritic;
(pruriginous)
jackal - lion’s
provider
jacket/waistcoat, not
reaching waist or meeting in front - bolero
Jacobite - nonjuror
jagged, rough - hackly
jargon - algavaric
jargon - baragouin
jaw - chavel
jaw, cheek - chap
jaws, pert. to - gnathic
jaws, with projecting - prognathous
jerk (upwards) - hoick
jest - glick,
gleek
jester - droll
Jewish Court,
Jews, Polish & German - Ashkenazim
Jews, Span. & Port. - Sephardim
join firmly together - compaginate
joke - funniment
jolly-boat - yawl
judge (
judge between two - dijudicate
jump to conclusion, a - saltus
jumped-up official - bumble,
little Hitler,
jumped-up official - jack-in-office
junior, lower in rank - puisne
jut, hang over - beetle
kale - borecole
kayak,
keen-sighted - lyncean
kestrel - staniel
kill - send
to glory
kill outright - enecrate
killing of offspring - prolicide
killing victim for sacrifice - mactation
kilt - filibeg
kind of spaniel - Blenheim
kind to inferiors - benignant
kind, good - beneficent,
beneficential
kindle - accend
kindled, capable of being - accendible
kindly, benign - benefic
king without royal power - roi
fainéant
kiss (to) - buss,
osculate
kissing - osculant
kiwi - apteryx
knee, pert. to - genual
knife-edged - cultrate
knife-maker - cutler
knight of higher grade
(vassals) - banneret
knock-kneed - hurked
up, varus
knot in wool/cloth; to clear of… burl
knot on tree - knar,
knur
knotted - nodated
knotty point - nodus
knotty, (rugged) - (knaggy),
nodose
knowingly, wilfully - scienter
knowledge - witting
knuckle bone - dib
kotow, to - knock
head
laborious - operose
lacerate; criticise severely - scarify
lack co-ordination in action - asynergy
lack/absence, denoting - abessive
lacking desire - inappetent
ladder-like - scalariform
lake dwelling - crannog
lake-dwelling, prehistoric - palafitte
lakes, pert. to - lacustrine
lamb; kid - yeanling
lament, wail - yammer
lamentation - jeremiad
lamp, pert. to - lucernal
lancet (to bleed horse/cattle) - fleam
land of the chrysanthemum -
land, low, fertile, along riverbanks - carse
land, low-lying, reclaimed fr. sea - polder
landing stair on riverside - ghat,
ghaut
land-leaper - vagabond
lane - boreen
lane, alley, narrow street - vennel
language, speaking the same - collingual
lanky/feeble person - windlestraw
lap/bosom, pert. to - gremial
large (bursting)
meteor - bolide
lark - laverock
larval, nascent - incipient,
nepionic
lascivious - prurient
lash, beat - welt
lasso - lariat
latch - sneck
late-learner - opsimath
latent - delitescent
lath; thin strip of wood - slat
laugh loudly - cachinnate
laughs, one who never - agelast
laughter-provoking - risorial
launderess - blanchisseuse
law of talion/retaliation - lex
talionis
lawful, allowable - licit
lawyers - gentlemen
of the robe
layers, in thin parallel - straticulate
lazy - lither
leach, to - lixiviate
leader - dux
leader of revolt - anarch
leading two different
ways - bivious
lead-poisoning - saturnism
leafless - aphyllous
leaf-stalk - petiole
leaf-vein - nervure
leafy - foliaceous
leap clear out of water (whale) - breach
leap year - bissextile
leap, frolic - curvet
leap, jump, dance (to) - saltate
leaping/passing across - transilient
leaps, progressing by - saltigrade
leather, pert. to - coriaceous
leave in a hurry - absquatulate
leave of absence - furlough
lecture (in univ.) - prelect
leek-green - porraceous
left hand - bridle-hand
leg, pert. to - crural
legionary’s oblong shield - scutum
legislative chambers, with 2 - bicameral
legs of unequal
length - badger-legged
leisure, ease - otium
lemon-coloured - citrine
lemur, Madagascan - lemur
lens-shaped - lentoid
leprous, full of sores - lazar-like
lesbian - tribade
lessen, minimise - minify
let burn while
cooking - bishop
let out, lease - ablocate
letter thanks for hospitality - roofer
level space for walk/drive - esplanade
level, open (country) - champaign
liar - Ananias
liberal, broad - latitudinarian
librarian - bibliothecary
lie low; to hide - tappice
lies, lying - leasing
life, rel. to; vital - zoetic
lifeless, destitute of spirit - sprightless
lift forcefully, to - arrace
ligament restricting motion - frenum
light complexion & hair - xanthocroid
light sleep - dog-sleep
light/lamp; the eye - glim
light-emitting
(living organism) - bioluminescent
lightless - aphotic
lightning - levin
lily-shaped - crinoid
limbs, lacking from birth - ameliac
limitation - circumscription
limp, to - claudicate
limper - dot
and go one
line - flux
of a point
line cutting a set of lines - transversal
line where lips meet - commissure
linen (mummies wrapped in) - byssus
link tog, connect in series - concatenate
link, bond, connexion - nexus
lip ornament - labret
lips of bloodhound, hanging - flews
lips, inflammation of - cheilitis
listening - audient
listlessness, torpor - accidie,
acedia
lists (in a
tournament) - barrace
literally - au
pied de la lettre
literary clique - cenacle
litter of pigs - farrow
little - ickle
live tog (in btw symb/par)- commensalism
lively, merry person - grig
lively; rowdy - rorty,
raughty
living in fresh water - limnetic
living in mud - limicolous
living in ponds/marshes - limnophilous
living in/on soil - terricolous
living organism - biont
living with wife’s family - matrilocal, uxorilocal
lizard (thick-tongued) - agamid,
agamoid
lizards, pert. to - lacertain
llama, species of - alpaca
lockjaw - trismus
loiter; slouch - mooch,
mouch
long (word) - sesquipedalian
long and slender - filiform
long home, low road - grave
long, sweeping
uppercut - bolo
long-lasting - chronic(al),
diuturnal
long-lived - longevous,
macrobiotic
long-sightedness - hypermetropia
long-sightedness (old age) - presbyopia
long-suffering - longanimous
long-tailed - longicaudate
long-winded - de
longue haleine
look at/for, to - aspect
looking backward (Her.) - regardant
lop off - dod
lop off from the trunk - detruncate
loquacious fool - bletherskate
lord of men (Agamemnon) - anax
andron
Lord of Misrule - abbot
of unreason
Lord, belonging to - dominical
lose weight - lank
loss of musc. strength - asthenia,
debility
lost, liable to be - amissible
loud, powerful (voice) - stentorian
loud-breather - grampus
lousy (infected with lice) - pedicular(ous)
lout - lusk
love of women - philogyny
love, pert. to - amative
love, propensity to - amativeness
love, state being in; romantic l.- amorance
love-knot; love-sonnet - amoret
love-making - amation
lover - amorist,
amoroso
lover of learning - philomath
loving one’s offspring - philoprogenitive
lowest order of mammals,1of- monotreme
lucid - perspicuous
lump, small (coal) - nubble
lung, sound of disease - râle
lust - concupiscence
lustful - concupiscent,
-piscible
lustful, lecherous - salacious
luxurious - sybaritic
lying - mendacious
lying between - interjacent
lying down, head up - couchant
lying on ground penitence - humicubation
lying on the back - resupine
lying/leaning forward - procumbent
Macedonian’s lance - sarissa
machete - matchet
magic - gramary
maiming - mayhem
maintenance, support - sustentation
make fast (rope) - belay
make over to another - dispone
malicious raiser of discord - barrator
malignant person - cacodaemon
malleable, tractable - ductile
malodorous perspiration - osmidrosis
mammals, study of - therology
man - animal
bipes
manger - cratch
manifoldness - multeity
manlike (the highest apes) - anthropoid
Manx cat - rumpy
marble, of - marmoreal
march, tramp - footslog
marginal note (Bible) - postil
market, prices are
falling - bear
market
marriage (relating to) - hymeneal, conjugal, connubial
marriage within clan - endogamy
marriage; man lives with
wife’s relations- beenah
married woman’s gallant - cicisbeo
marshes, of - paludal,
-dic, palustral
marshy; (malarial) - marish;
(paludal)
mason’s hod - trug
massage, use of light taps in- tapotement
master, sir (
material; corporeal - hylic
mating with only one female - monogyny
mating with only one male - monandry
matter thrown out (volc.) - ejecta(menta)
mature, suppurate fully - maturate
mawkish, feeble - milk-and-water
meagre - lenten
meal, repast; refreshment - refection
mean, paltry, low - scall
meanings, having many - multivocal
means of defence - muniment
mean-spirited - pusillanimous
measure of capacity
(grain) or weight (flour; 10 st.) - boll
meat, sun-dried, lean
- biltong
medicine mixed honey&syrup - electuary
medicine to gratify, not cure - placebo
medicine/physicians, pert. to - iatric(al)
medley, ridiculous - gallimaufry
meek, mild - pigeon-livered
meekness, mildness - mansuetude
meet - forgather
meeting (to discuss policy) - caucus
meeting, clandestine - conventicle
melancholy - hipped
melancholy arising from love- erotomania
melancholy, acrimonious - atrabiliar,-ious
melodic embellishment - roulade
melodious - canorous
melodramatic (cheaply so) - transpontine
melting - liquescent
membrane round heart - pericardium
memory, weakening the - antimnemonic
memory-prompting - remindful
men/stamens, without - anandrous
mend (a fire) - bete
menial worker - turnspit
mental deficiency - amentia
mercenary, corrupt - venal
merchant vessel, armed - carrack
mercifulness - lenity
mere mortal - man
of mould
merry companion - galliard
merry, cheerful - jocund
meteorite - aerolite,
aerolith
Methodist or
midday, before - antemeridian
midwife - accoucheuse
military rule - stratocracy
milk, pertaining to - lacteal,
lactic
milk, producing - lactiferous
milk, turning to - lactescent
milk-drinking - galactophagous
mind at birth; clean slate - tabula
rasa
minor work - opuscule
minority, infancy, immaturity - nonage
mirror-image - enantiomorph
miscellanous collection - olla
podrida
mischief, piece of - cantrip
misdemeanour, one who..- misdemeanant
miser - curmudgeon,
flay-flint, hunks
miser - snudge
miserliness - euclionism
mistake; oversight, neglect - misprision
mite-like - acaroid
mix (clay) with water
- blunge
mix (with foreign words) - interlard
mix in - interlard
mob-rule - ochlocracy
mock, to - fleer
modern, recent - neoteric
modesty - pudicity
modify, moderate - attemper
moist, wet - slobbery
moisten - humefy,
leach
moisten & rub with lotion - embrocate
moisten, wet, soak; to stain - imbrue
momentous - moliminous
monastery of lamas - lamasery
monastic - monachal
money - spending
money-changing - agio,
agiotage
money-exchange - bourse
money-making, of - chrematistic
monk (lives with others) - cenobite
monk without vows- beghard,
beguin
monkey (organ-grinder’s) - vervet
monsters, producing - teratogenic
monstrance - ostensory
monthly - mensal
moon - parish
lantern
moon (of the) - selenic
moral force, weight - pondus
morpheme occuring
only as part of word (e.g. plural ‘–s’) bound
morsel (bread with soup) - sippet
morsure
mortgage (to) - hypothecate
mosquito, germ-carry (rel.í)- anopheline
moss, like - muscoid
mosses, science of - bryology
mother-of-pearl - nacre
mouldy, musty - mucid
mound (wood/earth) for protection- agger
mound, cairn - barp
mountain torrent, narrow - gill,
ghyll
mountain-making - orogenetic
mountainous, mountain-dwelling - montane
mountains, beyond the - ultramontane
movable/ perishable/
unclaimed goods- bona
mobilia/ peritura/ vacantia
move - stir
one’s stumps
move an inch - stir
one stray
move in slow trot on spot - piaffe
move rapidly, ramble over - skir
move sideways round a centre - volt
move slowly - drumble
move violently, excite - commove
movement of disturbed
water - bobble
movement, capable of - motile
moving - pathetical
moving back - retrocession
moving forward - precession
moving like waves - undulatory
mug, tin, small - pannikin
mug, wooden cup - noggin
multiply; transmit - propagate
mumble; move listlessly - maunder
murder of one’s child - filicide
murder of one’s offspring - prolicide
muscle contract brow frown - corrugator
muscle, sinews - thew
muscles, pert. to - myoid
music, related to - euterpean
music. instrument S.E. Asia - angklung
musical, full, clear (voice) - orotund
musket, light flint-lock - fusil
Muslim call to prayer - azan
Muslim princess/ lady
of rank - begum
mutilate - mittle
mutually destructive - internecine
mutually obligatory - synallagmatic
my child (term endearment) - alannah
mystical interpretation - anagoge
(ogy)
nail, claw, hoof, pert. to - ungual
naked - skyclad
name (to), mention - neven
name, give to - betitle
naming parent from child - teknonymous
narcotic - bhang
narrow ledge/path
beside road - berm
narrow lobes, cut into - laciniate(d)
narrow surgical knife
- bistoury
narrow-beaked - angustirostrate
narrowed;(abnormally)- stenosed;(stenotic)
narrow-minded;
limited - borné
nasal hairs - vibrissae
native (n.) - indigene
natural consequence- consectary/corollary
nature, temperament, calibre - kidney
nauseate - scunner
neat, clean - menseful
neat, spruce, trim - trig
necessity - ananke
necessity (a) - sine
qua non
neck, belonging to - cervical
necktie, thin,
stringlike - bootlace
tie
need - mister
needle-pointed - acerose
needy, poor - indigent
negatives, using - apophatic
neighbour (
neighbourhood - purlieu,
vicinage
nest - nidus
nest, building a - nidification
net, snare - toils
(taken in the)
netted; netlike - reticular
network (nerves, fibres) - plexus
next, nearest, closest - proximate
nickname - sobriquet
night, heard at - nyctophoniac
nightfall, happening at - acronychal
nightfall, occurring at - acronychal
nightingale - rossignol
nightmare - oneirodeinia
night-scene, picture of - nocturne
night-wandering - noctivagant,
-gous
nimble, brisk - quiver
nobleman highest rank Sp/Port- grandee
nod continually - niddle-noddle
nod repeatedly - noddle
nod; to call by a nod - beck
nodding; drooping - nutant
noisy (paltry) quarrel (& vb) - brabble
noisy preacher,
shouting orator (Mark 3.17) - Boanerges
noisy, troublesome; a row - bobbery
noisy, turbulent - scambling
non-paying passenger etc. - dead-head
nonsense - bosh,
eyewash, flapdoodle
non-voter - abstentionist
north - septentrion
northern (the extreme) - hyperborean
nose - boko
nose, of the - rhinal
nosebleed - epistaxis
nose-blowing, of - emunctory
not risen (bread) - clabby,
cleaty, clidgy
not separable - impartible
not to be made void - indefeasible
not to be violated - infrangible
not yet able prey for itself (eyas)- at
hack
notched - denticulate
note, marginal - apostil(le)
notice, warning - caveat
novice - green-horn,
neophyte, tenderfoot, tryo
nullifying - diriment
numb - dold
number subtracted from - minuend
number to be subtracted - subtrahend
nun without vows - beguine
nurse-maid (Indian) - ayah
nut-bearing - nuciferous
nutrition, pert. to - trophic(al)
nymph (mountain) - oread
nymphomania, male equiv. - satyriasis
oaf, elf’s child - auf
oats, relating to - avenaceous
object of desire - desideratum
oblique side/face of
cut gem - bezel
obscure - recondite
obsequious agreement - assentation
obstacle (fish stops ship) - remora
obstinacy - pertinacity
obstinate silence - obmutescence
obstinate, intractable - refractory,
thrawn
obstinately holding opinion - pertinacious
obstruct - stonewall
obstructing; heavy - cumbrous
obstructive - impeditive
obtaining in stealthy manner - surreption
ocean dep, down to
4,000m - bathypelagic
ocean depths,
200-2,000m - bathyal
odour of cooked food - nidor
offering - oblation
offering (the thing offered) - offertory
officer in charge fences/enclos. -
official answer pope/emperor - rescript
officiousness (stupid) - beadledom
offspring, without - atokal,
atokous
oil - black
gold
oil lamp in coloured glass pot - lampion
oily - oleaginous
old age - senectitude
old woman - carline,
gammer
old, very - beeswinged
old-timer - sour
dough
ominous - black-boding
ominous - bodeful
omission letter in writing - lipography
omission, passing over - preterition
omit - pretermit
omit, pass over - elide
one after another - seriatim
onion (small, delicate) - cibol
onion with garlic flavour - shallot
onion, shallot - scallion
onlooker, gives unwanted advice- kibitzer
open country - weald
opening (a small) - foramen
opening, hole - aperture
opening, passage (esp. into mine) - adit
openly - in
the face of day
opponent; rebel - aginner
oppose, resist - gainstand,
repugn
opposed - contrariant,
contrarious
opposite to, be (hyp. & r. ang) - subtend
opposites, union of - antisyzygy
opposition - oppugnancy
opposition, expressing - adversative
opprobrious; censorious - dyslogistic
oral (will) - nuncupative
orange-like citrus fruit - shaddock
orange-red, bright - nacarat
orange-shaped - oblate
orange-yellow - saffron
orange-yellow, deep - luteous
order/direct with urgency - enjoin
ordered confusion - imbroglio
ordinary - common-or-garden
ordinary (day, opp. festival/fast) - ferial
organ (small, portable) - regal
organism, drifting in
ocean - plankton
organism, swimming in
sea - nekton
original source - fountain-head
ornament in low relief - anaglyph
ornament the edge of - purfle
ornamental clipping trees - topiary
ostentatious, done for show- epideictic(al)
ostrich, of/like - struthious
otherness - alterity
otter’s dung - spraints
outbreak; exuberance - ebullition
outcast - Ishmael,
pariah
outdoor area for exterior
scenes - backlot
outgrowth, projection - excrescence
outlandish, foreign; migratory - peregrine
outlaw, become an - take
to the heather
out-of-breath - blown
out-of-date person - back-number
outsider - outlier
overcoat - raglan,
redingote
overcoat (long, close-fitting) - surtout
over-emphasis small details - micrology
over-fullness - plethora
overlapping (like roof tiles) - imbricate
overlapping like tiles/scales - tegular
overlord’s right/privilege - seigniorage
over-precise person - precisian
over-refined - alembicated
overseer (factory) - tenter
overstepping the mark - ultracrepidarian
overthrow;
overturning - bouleversement
ownerless dog - pye-dog
pacific, promoting peace - irenic
pack tightly - steeve
pact between Church & State - concordat
pain, grief - dolour
pain, the sensation of - algesis
painting on ceiling/wall - tablature
pairs, growing in - binate
pairs, not existing in - azygous
palanquin, Japanese - kago
palate, soft - velum
palm of hand, sole of foot - thenar
palm/sole, of the - volar
pamper, cosset,
indulge
- cosher, cocker
Pan-pipe - syrinx
Pan-pipes, Andean - antara
pant - bussock,
pank, thock, tift, waff
parallel, make; adjust line sight - collimate
parapet, battlement - bartizan
parasite living inside host - entozoon
parrot - lory,
lorikeet
parrot; fop - popinjay
parrots, of/like - psittacine
parry & riposte - tac-au-tac
part of book issued instalments - fascicle
parting gift to guest - xenium
parting-cup - doch-an-doris,
stirrup-cup
partridge - francolin
passage (between walls) - slype
passenger holding strap - strap-hanger
passions, appealing to - declamatory
passive resistance - satyagraha
passport, edict (Oriental ruler’s) - firman
past flowering - deflorate
pat gently under the chin - chuck
patriotic, noisy rejoicings - mafficking
patron of art/literature - Maecenas
pavement artist - screever
pay out - disburse
pay the penalty for - aby,
expiate
peace proposal - eirenicon
peacock, of - pavonine
pear: of
peasant - muzhik
peasant - raiyat,
ryot
peasant (rich); exploiter - kulak
pea-shaped - pisiform
peat, place where is dug - turbary
pedlar - colporteur,
huckster
peep, to - keek
peevish - fractious
peevish; melancholy - splenetic
peg, bung (small, pointed) - spigot
pen
for fish, lobsters etc. - crawl
people difficult to manage - kittle
cattle
people, the (pejor.) - demos
perching - insessorial
perfect - unexceptionable
period of 5 years - lustrum
periodical - etesian
perjury - hard
swearing
permanent, everlasting - perdurable
perplexing, puzzling - quisquous
persecution by military - dragonnade
person hard to shake off - burr
person with loathsome disease - lazar
person/thing of same nature - congener
personal appearance - cut
of one’s jib
perspiration, promoting - diaphoretic
perspire - transude
pestilence - murrain
petitioner; candidate (holy ord)- postulant
pet-name - hypocorism
petrify - lapidify
petrifying - lapidescent
petulance, impudence - procacity
petulant - pettish
pheasant’s nest/brood - nid,
nide
physical force - mailed
fist
pickpocket’s confederate - stall
piece of black
basalt, sacred to Muslims - Black
Stone
piece, slice, cut off - cantle
pierce - tame,
thrull
pies, pastry - bakemeat
(Bibl.)
pigeon - turbit
pigeon-toed - keb-footed, pumble-footed, twang-toed,
pilfer - pick
& steal
pilgrim’s pouch, small bag - scrip
pillow-case - (pillow-)bere
pimple - whelk
pimply - papular,
papulose, -ous
pin in 2 holes - dowel
pine (to), languish - dwine
pink, bright - cyclamen
pipe (thin strip wood for lighting) - spill
pirate/brigand, to play the - picaroon
pirates’ flag; large
drinking jug - blackjack
pistol - barking
iron
pistol, large, horse-soldiers - petronel
pitch into trough of sea - s(c)end
pitcher-shaped - arytenoid
pith; marrow - medulla
pith-tree - ambatch
pitiless - dispiteous, impiteous
pitted - foveal,
foveate
pitted, furrowed - scrobiculate
pity, sorrow, remorse - ruth
place of light and plenty -
place struck by
lightning - bidental
place where, grammatical
case denoting
- adessive
plant eats decaying matter- saprophyte
plant grows in rocky places - stonecrop
plant of the dead - asphodel
plant, purple-flowered - salsify
plaster, to - parge(t)
plate (communion) - paten
plate, thin, of bone - lamella
plate-shaped, not imbricated - placoid
play (to) - lake
play by plucking string - pizzicate
playing a game with
the intent to lose - play
booty
playwright - dramaturge
pleasure, pursuit of - primrose
path
plebeian - roturier
plighting of troth - affiance
plonk, cheap wine - bombo
plough, primitive - ard
ploughed land, rel. to - arval
pluck out - evulse
plucking (fitful) bed-clothes - carphology
plucking bed-cloth delirium - floccillation
plug (for muzzle of gun) - tampion
plump, buxom - sonsy
plump, smack, suddenly - souse
plumpness, stoutness - embonpoint
plunderer - piller
ply with alcohol - lush
poacher (of fish by
night) - black-fisher
pocket (in skirt) - placket
pock-mark - variole
poet; Persian nightingale - bulbul
point of orbit farthest from sun - aphelion
point of orbit nearest to sun - perihelion
pointing backwards - retrorse,
retroverse
pointing in every direction - quaquaversal
pointing inwards (opp. salient) - reentrant
poison - aconite, aconitum, mithridate
poison (for arrows) - upas
poison, acting v. - alexipharmic
poisoning (adj.) - veneficial
poisonous exhalation - mephitis
poisonous, foul - virose
pole, rod - stang
polish, to; to flatten (out) - planish
polymath - polyhistor
pompous - bombastic,
grandiloquent, magniloquent
pompous and portly - aldermanly
pool - hollan,
stell
pool, stream fresh water - freshet
poor (condition, quality) - unthende, unwraste
poor expression - acataphasia
poor, hard land - scaup
poplar-tree, white - abele
poppies, pert. to - rhoeadic
poppy colour - ponceau
popular, pert. to the people - demotic
portend - foretoken
possessions - aver
possible in co-existence - compossible
posterior - posticous
pot, small - pipkin
pot, small, for ointments - gallipot
pot/mug - nog
pot-bellied - abdominous
pour through/over - perfuse
pout, grimace of discontent - moue
pouting lips - beesting
lips
pouting, sulking - bouderie
powerful, more so than others - prepotent
powers of evil - devil
& his dam
praise, to - cry
up
praise - lof
praise highly - belaud
prance - jaunce
prayer - orison
preach tediously - preachify
preach, to - apostolise
preacher; preaching - predicant
pre-animal life - azoic
preceding, anticipatory - prevenient
precision, with - by
rule and line
predatory - predacious, raptorial
predestined - supralapsarian
predetermine - foreordain
pre-eminent - palmary,
-marian
preliminary performance - prolusion
premeditated (malice) - prepense
presage, foretelling - prognostic
present day, of the - hodiernal
pressed shoulder to shoulder - serried
pressing, urging - exigent
prestigious, of high
value - blue-chip
pretentious nonsense - bunkum
prevent, preclude - foreclose
preventing disease - prophylactic
preventing straight course(wind)- baffling
price of, to fix/stabilise - valorise
prickle, thorn; sting - aculeus
prickly - acanaceous,
acanthaceous
prickly, possessing spines - jaculiferous
prickly; pointed; stinging - aculeate
pride - orgulity
priestly - hieratic
priestly - sacerdotal
prime, highest point - meridian
prison van - Black
Maria
prison, a jail - calaboose
probably; perhaps - belike
proclaim, publish abroad - promulgate
proclaim, spread abroad - blaze
produces young in living state- viviparous
producing offspring
in twos - biparous
profit, gain - grist
profit-seeker (& nichts else) - quaestuary
prolapse, drooping of eyelid - ptosis
prolonged - prolixious
promise not yet accepted - pollicitation
prompter - book-holder
promptly - derfly,
hendly
prong of fork, deer’s antler - tine
pronunciation r like l - lallation
pronunciation, bad - cacoepy
pronunciation, faulty, of l - lambdacism
prop, support - undersetter
(Bibl.)
property falling to state - escheat
prophesy - vaticinate
prophetic - vatic
prophetic power, gifted with - fatidical
propitiatory gift - sop
propriety - convenance
prosper - gang
gradely
prostitute - demi-mondaine,
demi-rep
protecting - tutelary
protection - grith
protrude - exsert
protruding (lower jaw) - underhung
proud - orgulous
proud of one’s wealth - purse-proud
Provençal thick,
spiced soup, fish, & vegetables - bouillabaisse
provicinalism - patavinity
proximity, similarity - propinquity
prudish - pudibund
psychoanalsyis, one undergoin- analysand
public walk, esp. btwn poplars - alameda
publicly approve appointm. of - preconise
puckering, gathering - shir(r)
puffed out, bulging,
full - bouffant
pull apart - divellicate
pull, haul, tear - touse
pulpy - pultaceous
pulsation, absence of - acrotism
pulsatory - systaltic
pulse - sphygmus
pulverise - comminute
pun - paronomasia
pun, equivoc. expression
- equivoque
punished, be - get
one’s gruel
punning - bisociative
punt, to; punting pole - quant
pure fire/light, pert. to - empyreal
purgation - abstersion
purgative, cleansing - cathartic(al)
purgative; a laxative - aperient, black draught
purify - depurate
purify by sacrifice - lustrate
purifying (the act of) - epuration
puritan;
purloin - snaffle
purple (& turning towar. sun)- heliotrope
purple, dark - damson
purple, deep - modena, tyrian
purplish-red - solferino
purulent inflammation - phlegmon
put to flight - fleme
putrefaction - sepsis
putrid; barren, empty - addle
quack - medicaster
quack medicine - nostrum
quaking - trepid
quality, habit - tatch
quantity lost by decrease - decrement
quarrelous,
trouble-stirring - barratrous
queasy & parched after drunk. - chippy
queenly - reginal
quench - sloken
question formally - interpellate
questioner - querist
quickly - belive
quick-sighted - bird-eyed
quiet
tributary/backwater - bogan
quiet, to make - bestill
quieted - taced
quieting nervous excitement - nervine
quintessence - pith
& marrow
r, excessive use of - rhotacism
r, the letter - dog’s
letter
rabble,
hoi polloi - groundlings, great unwashed
radiant - beamist
radiant energy is
measured by a - bolometer
radiating in every direction - panthodic
ragout of chicken or
veal in a white sauce - blanquette
raid (by N. African Moors) - razzia
raid, hostile attack
- bodrag
rain in small drops - mizzle
rain, fine, from cloudless sky - serein
rain-gutter on roof - roan,
rone
rain-squall - scat
raise, set upright; pricked up (ears)- arrect
raised streak left by stripe - wale,
weal
raised way inside
parapet - banquette
raising, lifting up - attollent
rake (v – gunfire); vista - enfilade
rake, libertine - Lothario
rake, profligate - losel
rake, profligate, debauchee - roué
rampart - rampire
rampart felled trees, branches outw- abatis
rank-smelling - olid, rammish
rapid (in a river) - sault
rapidity - celerity
rascal - badmash, losel, lurdan, spalpeen
rash; impetuous - ramstam
ratify - homologate
raucous - rauque
ravine; glutton; swallow greedily - gulch
ravine; valley - kloof; clough
reached - raught
reactionary - obscurant
read, unwilling to - aliterate
reading between the lines - subaudition
reading, a - lection
reading-desk, raised; early pulpit - ambo
ready; to dress,
prepare, get ready - boun,
bowne
real/concrete, to make - reify
rear on the hind legs - ramp
rear, at the - retral
rebuke, reproof - jobation
rebuke, reprove - jobe
recantation - palinode
reception - accoil
recipient - donee,
donatory
reckless, flighty, rash - harum-scarum
reckless, rash - temerarious
reclaim for agric. by grubbing - assart
reclaim from the sea - impolder
reclaimed wasteland - thwaite
reclining (on the ground) - decumbent
reclining on couch- accumbent(accubation)
recoil, spring back® shape - resile
recollection (prev. existence) - anamnesis
reconcile/unify, tending to - henotic
recreant - recrayed
recur, break out afresh - recrudesce
recur, sprout again - repullulate
red and inflamed - erythematous
red cap of liberty of
the French Revolution -
red cooking apple - biffin
red, deep - sang-de-boeuf
red, light and clear shade - cerise
reddening - rubefacient
reddening - rubescent
reddish - rufescent, rufous
reddish-brown - rufous, sorrel
reduce, abate; dull, blunt - rebate
reduction of a legacy - abatement
redundancy (of words) - pleonasm
redundant expression - pleonasm
redwater (cattle
infection) - babesiosis
reed, of/like a - arundinaceous
reedy, feeble, screechy, thin - scrannel
reef of rock - skerry
refractive - anaclastic
refractory - balky
refractory - recalcitrant,
recusant
refrain (of song) - fading
refuse (cast up by sea) - rejectamenta
refuse from wine-making - marc
refuse heap - laystall
refuse to go on (horse) - jib
refuse to go on (horse, person) - jib
refuse, anything vile - offscouring
refused/rejected, not to be - irrecusable
reiterate - ingeminate
reject (with disdain) - scout
reject with loathing - cast
the gorge at
reject, to - athetise
rejection of passage of text - athetesis
rekindle - relume
related (mother’s side) - cognate
related (on mother’s side) - enate
relation, esp. by marriage - affine
relationship by blood - consanguinity
relationship by marriage - affinity
relieving flatulence - carminative
religious, morbidly so - religiose
relinquishment - demission
remain - leng
remain, wait - hove
remaining; remainder - remanent
remedy specially devised - magistral
remind of a fault - twit
remorse - ayenbite
removal fluid through suction - aspiration
removing hair - depilatory
render unfit for consumption - denature
render watertight - caulk
rendering null & void - defeasance
renew, restore to wholeness - redintegrate
renovated (B.) - swept
& garnished
rent, most severe - rack-rent
repair/make casks/tubs - cooper
repast, a lunch - collation
repeat rapidly, mechanically - patter
repeating question word/word - echolalia
repellent - rebarbative
repentant; remorseful - compunctious
repetition - iteration
repetition of same sound - tautophony
repetition, meaningless - verbigeration
reply; replace - repone
representation, performance- presentment
reprimand - jobation
reproach - hete
request, of the nature of - precatory
reservation, saving clause - salvo
resounding, reechoing - reboant
resounding, sonorous - plangent
restless tossing in illness - jactitation
restorative - analeptic
Resurrection - anastasis
retaliation - retortion
retch - keck, heave the gorge
retreat, fortified inner - reduit
retreat, signal for (drum/trump) - chamade
retrogressive evolution - katagenesis
reveal - disbosom
reverie (gloomy) - brown
study
revival, refreshment - refocillation
revocation of grant - ademption
revolutionary outbreak - putsch
reward - warison
ribs (of) - costal
ricane
rich, shellfish soup;
unglazed white porcelain - bisque
ridge of mown grass/corn - swath
riding horse, the art of - equitation
riding-whip - quirt
riff-raff - ragtag
and bobtail
rigid, growing - rigescent
rigorously just & severe - rhadamanthine
ring colour. feathers round neck- torquate
ring, in almost complete - penannular
ringleader - bell-wether
ring-shaped - annular
riotously merry - Saturnalian
rip open - unrip
ripple, slight wave - crispation
ripple, undulate, to - wimple
rising (from the sea) - assurgent
rising; aggressive - assurgent
river- & canal-clogging plant - anacharis
river bank, pert. to - riparian
river branch, not return main- distributary
river, dwelling near/in a - riverine
river, of a - fluvial,
riverain
river-fish/huge/S Am.- arapaima,
pirarucu
rivers (of) - fluvial, potamic
rivers/sea, can live in both - fluviomarine
rob, steal; scrounge
- blag
robber (
robber, pirate - ladrone
robbery, rapine - ravin
robe reaching the ankles - talar
robe, gown, surplice - stole
rock-dwelling - saxatile,
saxicoline/-lous
rock-peak projecting over ice - nunatak
rocky - petrous
rodent, stout & burrowing - marmot
roll together/up - convolve
roofless, open to the sky - hypethral
room next to roof - cockloft
root, source - radix
rope-walker, acrobat - equilibrist
rose-fancier - rosarian
roselike - roseal
rosette, in a - rosulate
rose-window; rosette - rosace
rostrum (Athenian
orators) - bema
rosy rash; rubella - roseola
rosy; fresh & beautiful - auroral,
-rean
rosy; rose-scented - roseate
rough with short hairs - asperous
rough, harsh - asper
rough, scaly, hairy - squarrose
rough, uncut edge - deckle-edge
roughen - asperate
roundabout phrase - circumlocution
roundabout ways; windings - ambages
roundness - rondure
rouse suddenly (birds) - flush
row, disturbance - shindy
rows (in) - seriate
rows, not in - astichous
royal court, pert. to - aulic
royal privileges, having - palatine
royal, appointed by the crown - regius
rub/grind to fine powder - triturate
ruddy - high-coloured, rubicund, rubric
rudimentary - abecedarian
ruffian - bashi-bazouk
rugged (coast) - iron-bound
ruin, destroy - banjax
ruler, feudal lord - suzerain
ruling, supreme - hegemonic
ruminant, third
stomach - bible
rung (of ladder) - stap,
stavver, stee-spell
running, adapted for - cursorial
running/extending downward - decurrent
rural economy - agronomy
rural, attached to the land - predial
rural, uncouth - agrestic
rush, rapid movement - tantivy
rust-coloured - ferruginous,
rubiginous
rustic - bucolic
rustic, agricultural - georgic
rustic, boorish - borrel
rustle, whisper - susurrate
rye-beer (Russian) - kvass
sacred enclosure- adytum,
sekos, temenos
sacrifice - immolation
sacrifice (great) - hecatomb
sad - tristful
sadden, to - attrist
saddle-shaped - selliform
saffron-coloured - croceate
sailing-vessel, light - caravel
sailor - matlow
sailor’s bag/box odds/ends- ditty-bag/box
saintliness - sanctitude
saliva, sth. that stimulates - sialogogue
salmon, young - samlet
salmon-spear; to spear with... - leister
saltish; between salt and fresh - brackish
salvation, pert. to - soterial
same mother, different father - uterine
same origin/nature, of the - congeneric
sandal, a light - alpargata
sand-binding shore grass - marram
sand-loving - ammophilous
sand-wall, defence
desert warfare - berm
sandy - arenaceous
sandy; gritty (secretions) - sabulous
sate, dull the appetite - disedge
satirise; a satire - lampoon,
pasquinade
saucy, imprudent - malapert
sausage-shaped - allantoid
savage - ferine
savoury - sapid
saw for cutting along the grain - ripsaw
scale off - desquamate
scales, overlapping - laminate(d)
scalp disease - porrigo
scaly - squamose,
squamous
scanty; diminutive - exiguous
scarecrow - flay-boggle
science of lying - pseudology
science of quantity/dosage - posology
science of soils - pedology
scimitar-shaped - acinaciform
scissor-shaped - forficate
scold, shrew - beldame,
virago
scold, shrew; quarrelsome - termagant
scope - ambit
scope, range - purview
scorch, toast - birsle
Scotsman - blue-bonnet
scoundrel - blackguard,
varlet
scowl (to) - lour
scraping-instrument (surgeon’s) - curette
scraps of food - scran
scratch with grating sound - gride
scratching around for food - rasorial
scream shrilly - skirl
scroll - torsel
scrurfy, thin, dry, stiff - scarious
scuffle, brawl - bagarre
scurf, dandruff - furfur
scurfy - furfuraceous
scurry, to - scutter
scythe, tool to sharpen - strickle
sea & land - flood
& field
sea, beyond the - ultramarine
sea, deep, pert. to - pelagian
sea, open, pert. to - pelagic
sea, pert. to - thalassic
sea-bird, predatory - skua
sea-bottom, flora
& fauna - benthos
sea-bottom, living
on- benthonic,
benthoal
sea-green - glaucous
seals & signets, study of - sphragistics
sea-shore, near the - sublittoral
seaside marshland - maremma
season, to - condiment
seat behind coach for servants - rumble
seaweed - kelp,
varec, vraic
seaweed, edible - arame
secluded - claustral,
cloisteral
secluded apartments (Indian
women) - zenana
second-rate imitator/follower - epigone
secrecy - hugger-mugger
secret tribunal - vehmgericht
secret, underhand - hole-&-corner
seeing error of one’s ways - resipiscence
seek - lait
seeker - questant,
questrist
seesaw - bascule
seize - fang
seize a debtor’s goods - distrain
seize, distrain - poind
selective breeding - stirpiculture
self-devouring - autophagous
self-evident - axiomatic
self-important little man - cockalorum
self-important person - mugwump
self-indulgent- apolaustic
self-luminous - autophanous
self-origination - aseity
self-seeker - arriviste,
parvenu
self-sufficiency - autarky
self-sufficient - autarkic(al)
self-taught person - autodidact
self-worship - autolatry
sellable - vendible
semblance, image - simulacrum
semblance, likeness - similitude
sending away - dimissory
senile - doited
sennet - tucket
sent, that may be - missive
sentimental - rose-water
separate ways, go - dispart
separating - disjunctive
separation - disjunction
sequence - consecution
serpent-like - ophidian
serpent-lizard - seps,
skink
servant girl - tweeny
serve (to) - famulate
set free - manumit
set with jewels - enchase
setting (sun) - westering
settle on a series of heirs - entail
settle, arrange beforehand - preconcert
sever, pull apart - discerp
severable - discerptible
sewing up of wound - suture
sexual inactivity, period of - anoestrus
sexual intercourse - coition
shackle (to), hamper - trammel
shade against sun, on
front women’s hats Middle Ages - bongrace
shade, affording - umbriferous
shady - umbral,
umbrageous, umbrose
shady; tipsy - bosky
shaggy, unkempt - tousy
shake hands - tip
us your fin
shake, wobble - shoggle
shaking - succussion
shaking like jelly - tremellose
shallow (adj.) - shoal
sham, in false taste - pinchbeck
shame, modesty - aidos
shameless, lewd - ithyphallic
shanty town
(French-speaking)- bidonville
shape roughly (in
stone-cutting) - boast
shape, of ever-changing - amoebiform
shared knowledge of sth. private - privity
shark, pert. to - squaloid
shark-mouthed - hypostomatous
sharp point, having a - cuspidate(d)
sharp, shrewd; shrill (sound) - argute
sharpen, to (razor) - strop
sharpen, to; tapering - acuminate
sharper - thimble-rigger
sharp-pointed, needle-shaped - acicular
sharp-sighted - gimlet-eyed,
lynx-eyed
shed (an old covering) - exuviate
shed/come off in flakes - exfoliate
sheep in 2nd year - teg
sheep, to mark red - raddle,
reddle, ruddle
sheep, yearling, not yet shorn - hoggerel
sheep-like - ovine
shellfish - wentletrap
shelter (to take) - hve
shelter; protection -
shield (small, round) - targe
shield, central boss of - umbo
shield-/kidney-shaped - aspidioid
shield-shaped - scutiform, thyroid
shimmering - opalescent
shimmering, rainbow-coloured- iridescent
shine of long-polished furniture - patina
shining,
bright, lustrous - lulcent, nitid, relucent
shining; bright - lucent
ship (mediae, swift, war) - dromond
ship too old for
action, but useful in port defence - blockship
ship, small, 3-masted, pirate, Med.- xebec
ship’s biscuit - hardtack
ship’s small boat - jollyboat
shirk - scrimshank
shirk hard work, malinger - mike
shirker, idler - slacker
shiver with cold; chirp - chitter
shoemaker - cordwainer
shoemaker - souter
shoot (young), sucker - turion
shooting (pain) - lancinating
shooting, death by - fusillation
short and fat - spuddy
short and squat - pyknic
short and stocky - amplosomic
shorten (sail) - scantle
shortened, reduced - curtate
shortest line btw. A & B - geodesic,-etic
short-winded, fat & short - pursy
shoulder, pert. to - humeral
shoulder-cape (women, judges) - tippet
shout - vociferate
show/display, done for - epideictic
showing the back - tergant
showy but worthless - brummagem
showy, trumpery - gimcrack
shreds, pieces - mammocks
shrew, old vixen - harridan
shrewlike - soricine
shriek, to (bagpipes) - skirl
shrill; keen; shrewd - argute
shrine for relics of saints - feretory
shroud - cerement
shrub-like - fruticose
shudder (to), feel horror - grue
shun, abstain from - eschew
shy, nervous; frisky; wanton - skittish
sickly-sweet - saccharine
sickness - mesel
sickness (excessive drinking) - crapulence
side-slip - skid
sieve-like, with small holes - cribriform
sift through coarse
cloth; examine by sifting - boult
sigh, to - suspire
sight, impaired - amblyopia
sign with initials, to - paraph
Sikh ‘Lord’s Prayer’ - Ardas
silently break wind - foist
silk, heavy, interwoven gold - samite
silk, thin, used for veils - tulle
silken - seric
silkworm, pert. to - bombic
silky, soft & shiny - sericeous
silly, affected smile - simper
simple style of
country music (
simple, honest - aefald
(onefold)
simpleton - gaby
sincere; out and out heart-whole
singer, female - chanteuse,
cantatrice
sinning; disease-producing - peccant
sisterly - sororal
sitting upright on haunches (Her.) - sejant
situated, beset (ill, hard..) - bestead
sketch the outline of - adumbrate
skilful, dextrous - habile
skin (outermost) - cuticle,
epidermis
skin (true) - cutis
skin eruption in infants - milk-crust
skin, done through the - percutaneous
skin, husk, rind - integument
skin, pert. to - dermal
skin, under - hypodermic,
subcutaneous
skinned - flain
skinny - lathy
skin-scraper for bath - strigil
skirmish - velitation
skirt-pocket - placket
skull - brain-pan
skull cap (R.C.) - zuccheta
sky - welkin
sky small white fleecy clouds- mackerel
s.
sky-blue - celeste
sky-blue; dark-blue; sea-green - cerulean
slacken, let out (rope) - veer
slander (to) - calumniate
slanting - bevel
slap, to - skelp
slaughter by severing spinal cord - pith
sledge, covered; felt tent - kibitka
sleep, talking in - somniloquence
sleep-inducing - opiate
sleepiness - somnolence
sleeve (wider arm-hole th. wrist)- dolman
sleeve, wide armhole,
tight wrist- batwing
sleight of hand - legerdemain
sleight of hand - prestidigitation
slender, lithe, lissom - svelte
slender; gracefully slight - gracile
slenderness; subtlety - exility
slender-waisted - wasp-waisted
slide down - glissade
slimy, gluey - limous
slip, slide in all directions - slidder
slipper, Oriental,
heelless - babouche
slipshod - sloven
slit leather strap for corp. pun. - taws(e)
slob - slubberdegullion
slope (downward) - declivity
slope (to) inwards towards top - flanch
slope (upward) - acclivity
sloped cutting edge
(of chisel) - bezel
slopes, instrument to measure - clinometer
sloping in opposite directions - anticlinal
sloth-addict - lotus-eater
slow and dignified - largo
slow-moving - tardigrade
sluggish - lymphatic
sluggishness - lentitude
sly, shrewd - pawky
small - minikin
small - tantony
(bell, pig)
small act of work - hand’s
turn
small and elegant - bijou
small yellow circle
(Heraldry) - bezant
smallpox - variola
smarten, spruce o.s. up - prink
smash - frush
smell, loss of sense of - anosmia
smelling of dirty
water - bilgy
smiling, cheerful - riant
smoky, dirty - reechy
smooth, grind to fine powder - levigate
snack between meals - bever
snake, 2-headed, fabulous - amphisbaena
snake, deadly (Bengal) - krait
snakelike
(harmless genus) - colubrine
snakeline
- anguine
snap
(fingers) - thrip
snap,
break with snap - knap
snare with a spring-noose - springe
snare, trap; to snare - gin
snarl, growl - gnar
sneezing - sternutation
snore (to) - rout
snoring - rhonchisonant,
stertorous
snoring sound, with a - stertorous
snowy - nival
soak, spoil by soaking - ret,
rate, rait
soapy - saponaceous
sociable - gregarious
Socratic method - maieutics
soft - nesh
soft, morbidly - malacotic
soften effect colour by thin coat- scumble
softening - emollient
software with more
facilities than most users need - bloatware
soil, sully, stain - smirch,
smutch
soils, esp. affect agric, study of - agrology
soldier - food
for powder
soldier, light-armed - velite
solidification by freezing - gelation
solidungulate animal - soliped
something rare or
non-existent - black
swan
song - leden
songbird, Indian - avadavat,
amadavat
soothing - anetic, balsamic, demulcent
soothing, lessening pain - paregoric
soothing; mitigating; laxative - lenitive
sooty, dusky - fuliginous
soporific - somnifacient, somniferous, soperous, soporiferous
sorceror/shaman (Eskimo) - angekkok
sorcery - pishogue
sore on horse’s back - sitfast
sorrowful - tristful
soul (Egy: bird,
human head) - ba
sound a signal with horn - strake
sound of flatulence
in the intestines - borborygmus
soup, meat & veg, thick - pottage
sour - acetic,
acetous
sour (slightly) - acidulous
sour, sharp to taste - tart
source, from another - aliunde
source, origin - provenance
sour-looking - sour-loten
sour-tempered person - crab,
cross-patch
southern - austral,
meridional
sow; propagate - seminate
space full matter (opp. vacuum) - plenum
spade’s depth - graft
spade-depth - spit
Spanish-speaking,
poor district - barrio
spark - scintilla
speak through nose - snuffle
speech, loss of - alalia
spend one’s savings - dissave
spider, pert. to - telarian
spiked - spicate
spilt, what is; excess - spilth
spin round; to tread
on and make spin - birl
spine/backbone - chine
spinning round - gyratory
spiny - acanthous
spiral - helical
spire, slender - flèche
spirited - sprightful
spiritedly - con
moto
spiritless, dull - mopish
spiritless, lifeless - exanimate
spittoon - cuspidor
splash through mud/water - drabble
splay-footed - splawdered,
Wed-&-Thurs
splay-footed - sprog-hocked,a
dew-dasher
split, splinter, to - spall,
spalt
split, tear off lengthwise - sliver
splitting hairs - wiredrawn
spoiled, tainted (wine) - corked
spokesman - prolocutor
spokesman, leader - fugleman
spongy - pumiceous
spot - macula
spouse - fere
sprawl, totter - walter
spray from crest of waves - spindrift
spread, turn, for drying - ted
spreading (bot.) - patulous
sprinkle - resperse
sprinkle (with moisture) - sparge
sprinkling vessel - dredger
sprout (to); shoot up - spire
spur, small spiked wheel on - rowel
squid - calamary
squint-eyed - boss-eyed
squinting - skew-eyed
squire, page - donzel
squirrel’s nest - drey
squirrel-like - sciurine,
sciuroid
St. Veronica’s handkerchief - sudarium
stab/pierce (with rapier) - pink
staff of cooks in a
large house - bouche
staggering, stumbling - titubant
stained, impure - maculate
stake-fence in stream catch fish - kiddle
stammering - balbutient
starch - amylum
stare at like gorgon - gorgonise
stare down - outface
starfish - asterid
staring-eyed - wall-eyed
stars, little, set with - stellular
stars, pertaining to - sidereal
star-shaped - stellate
starve - clem
state of being nowhere - nullibiety
steal, filch - prig
steelyard (Shetland
and Orkney) - bismar
stemless - acauline,
acaulose
stenosis, stricture - coarctation
stepmother, relating to - novercal
stew (pork, fish, onions &c.) - chowder
stew/hash with vegetables - lobscouse
stick w. iron hook catch/land fish - gaff
sticky; tenacious - glutinous
sticky; tenacious - viscid,
viscous
stiffen, unite (bones) - anchylose
stiffness in manners - buckram
stifle, suppress - burke
stimulant - incitant
stimulate - innervate
stimuli cause pain to warn danger - noxa
stinging - urculant
stinking badger (Indon.) - teledu
stoical indifference - ataraxia
stomach - tharm
stone circle - peristalith
stone slab/tablet (upright) - stele
stone that binds a
wall together - bondstone
stone to death - lapidate
stone, resembling - lithoid(al)
stone, wedge-shape, forms arch- voussoir
stop up - obturate
stoppage - stasis
stoppered; corked
while still fermenting - bouché
stop-watch - chronograph
store for all kinds of goods - pantechnicon
storehouse, repository - repertory
store-place for wool - lanary
stormy, tempestuous - procellous
straightforward, genuine - jannock
stream - floss
stream flowing into river/lake - affluent
street arab - mudlark
strengthening (drug) - roborant
stretch on hooks - tenter
stretched, that can be - tensile,
tensible
strict, rigorous - barrack
square
strike
(n); (vt) - hartal;
frap
strike,
hit, to - colpive
string of beads, like a - moniliform
stripper - ecdysiast
strong German beer; a
quarter-litre glass/mug - bock
strong Northeastly
wind in the
study by lamplight - lucubrate
stuff (fowl) - force
stuffing (cooking) - farcing
stupid - beef-brained,
-witted, Boeotian, daffish, dappy, dummel, dunstical
stupid - kimit,
staups, fat-witted, noggen, puddled,
stupid, dull - blockish
stupid, silly - anserine
stupid, unable to feel - insensate
stupidity - hebetude
stupor-inducing - stupefacient
styptic, a - haemostatic
subject to smoke and fumes - suffumigate
submerged reef - bombora
submit slavishly - truckle
subservient, subsidiary - ancillary
subsidiary (relig. estab.) - succursal
substitute, serving as a - succedaneous
subterfuge; evasion - ambages
subtle (e.g.
distinction)- fine-drawn
subtle, too - fine-spun
suckers, producing - surculous,
-ose
sudden change of fortune - peripetia
sudden temporary paralysis - cataplexy
suddenly, by a single
action - at
a blow
sue at law - implead
suicide - felo
de se
sulk, mope (to) - boody, glout
sullen, shy & awkward - farouche
summer, pert. to - (a)estival
summer, to pass in torpor - aestivate
summit, zenith - vertex
summon to assemble - convoke
summon, cite, to - accite
sumptuous - dapalactic
sundial-pin - gnomon
sung, meant to be (poem) - melic
sunshine - queen’s
weather
superb specimen of anything- Koh-i-noor
superficial knowledge - sciolism
superficial, insincere - lip-deep
superfluous - supernumerary, supervacaneous
superfluous, inapprop. addition - postiche
superior, disdainful - upstage
supernatural knowledge - cryptaesthesia
supine - upward
supplemental, not essential - adscititious
supplication; asking - rogation
supply money to - imburse
suppose, express as an opinion - opine
supposed, reputed - putative
sure - siker
surface skin - scarfskin
surgeon’s tool to scrape bones - xyster
surging - gurgitation
surround with rampart - circumvallate
surrounding - circumambient
survivor, surviving trace; widow - relict
swaggering boaster
(Jonson, Every Man in his Humour) - Bobadil
swallow hole - swallet
swallow up greedily - ingurgitate
swamps, growing in - uliginous,
-ose
swan (male) - cob
swarm, to - byke
sway, oscillate - librate
sweat - sudor
sweat-causing - sudorific
sweating - sudatory
sweet (wine) - amabile
sweet potato - batata
sweeten, make gentle - dulcify
sweeten, purify (by washing) - edulcorate
sweetheart - leman
sweetmeat - comfit
sweetmeat, perfumes breath - cachou
swell - tumefy,
tumesce
swell up - intumesce
swell, fill out - plim
swell, stretch in 3-D - distend
swell, to - boll
swelling - turgescent
swelling in roof mouth (horse) - lampas
swelling, bombastic - turgent,
turgid
swelling, bulging, knobby - torous,
-ose
swelling/carcinoma, hard - scirrhus
swift - tantivy
swimming - natation
swindle, to - financier
swindle, trick, to - chouse
swinish - porcine
swollen - blabber,
bolled, tumid
swollen, inflated - flabberkin,
tumid
swollen, obese - hypertrophic
swollen, thickened - incrassate
swollen-bellied - ventricose,
-ous
sword (broad) - glaive
sword, curved (Gurkha) - kukri
sword, pointless (embl. mercy) - curtana
sword-shaped - ensiform, xiphoid
syllables, fewer in Nominative - imparisyllabic
synchronised volley of
applause- Kentish
fire
synopsis - conspectus
syphilitic - luetic
table-companion - commensal
tablet, round, medicinal - troche
tad, smidgeon - scantling
tail, pert. to - caudal
tail, short erect (hare, rabbit, deer) - scut
tailless - anurous, ecaudate
taint, render defective - vitiate
take the
bloom/freshness off - blow
on
taken away - benome
taking in (of ideas) - intussusception
tale-bearer - pick-thank
talk boastfully & incessantly - blatter
talk incoherently (excited) - burble
talk superficially - smatter
talk very fast - talk
a blue streak
talkative - long-tongued
tall, very (of mast) - taunt
tallness, height - prolicity
tame - cade
tame (to) - cicurate
tamper with horse (e.g. teeth) - bishop
tandem, with 3 horses in - randem
tantrum, hysterical fit - conniption
tapering - fastigiate
tapering at both ends - fusiform
tapestry stitch,
zigzag pattern - bargello
task - pensum
task, day’s work - darg
taste (producing) - sapor(ific)
taste, to; to relish - degust(ate)
tasteless, showy - tawdry
tasting - gustation
tawny, dull yellow - fulvous
tax, duty, tribute - impost
tea (fine black) - souchong
tea (lowest quality of) - bohea
teacher’s pointer - fescue
tear to bits - mammock
tear with the teeth - worry
tear, lacerate - lancinate
tearing asunder - avulsion
tearing, adapted for - laniary
teddy-bears, collector of - arctophile
tedious, long discourse - screed
temper (to) - anneal
temple - fane
temple’s most sacred part - adytum
temporary bed - shakedown
temporary, mutable; moving - ambulatory
tender - intenerate
tender, hold out for acceptance - porrect
tense, condensed lang. - brachiology
tent; body as abode of soul - tabernacle
tenure, an ancient (to hold in..) - burgage
tepid - lew
tepid, to make - tepefy
terrestrial - subastral, tellural, telluric, tellurian
test by weight and assay, to (coin) - pyx
test money for base coin - shroff
testify - depone
testing; affording proof - probative
thatched hut - banda
theatre, low-class - penny
gaff
thicket - bosk,
bosket, brake, shrog
thicket, small wood - shaw
thick-lipped - labrose
thick-skinned - pachydermatous
thin - defatted
thin as paper - papyraceous
thing of little/no value - doit
think out laboriously - excogitate
thinking, laborious - excogitation
thinking-place - phrontistery
thorny - spinose,
spinous
thoroughly - root
& branch
thrash - larrup
thrash soundly - bethwack
threaten (with divine veng)- comminate
threatening - minacious
threatening - minatory
three, division into (bd,sl,spr)- trichotomy
three-cornered - triquetrous
threefold - ternate
thriving in rubbish/waste - ruderal
throat, gullet - red
lane
throat, windpipe - weasand
throttle - scrag
through and through - to
the backbone
throw (dart) - jaculate
throw (to) - cob,
hain, hocks, hoy,
throw (to) - swail,
whang, yack, yark
throw off in foam/scum - despumate
throw open enclosed ground - dispark
throw out fresh shoots - flush
throw sticks (at birds/fruit) - squail
throw, to - jaculate
throwing; (a dart) - jactation;
jaculation
thrush - mavis,
missel, throstle
thrust - foin,
thrang
thug - phansigar
thunder, issue with threats - fulminate
thundering on high - altitonant
ticklish, difficult to manage - kittle
tidal bore - eagre
tide of smallest range - neap
tie up - ligate
tiger-cat, spotted (S. Amer) - margay
tiger-shooting, platform in tree - machan
tighten & slacken - veer
and haul
timber-tree, heavy - bilian
time-server - trimmer
timid, shy - pavid
tin-bearing - stanniferous
tinkling sound of bells - tintinnabulation
tin-mine - wheal
tip - pourboire
tippling - bibation
tipsy, dazed - muzzy
tired out - forspent,
forwearied, forworn
tit for tat - a
Roland for an Oliver
titbit - bonne-bouche
to be
agreeable/favourable to one - suit
one’s book
toil - swink
toil (to) - moil,
swink
told privately in the ear - auricular
tongue - unruly
member
tongue, of underside of - ranine
tongue, pert. to - glossal,
lingual
tongue-shaped - linguiform,
lingulate
tool, engraving on copper - burin
toothless - edentate
top/branches, having lost the - doddered
torch, iron basket - cresset
tortuous; circumlocutory - ambagious
torture - excruciate
totter, to - daddle
touch, pertaining to - tactile
touching, adjoining - contiguous
tourist/person gaping - rubberneck
tournament (Sumo) - basho
towel (endless) on roller - jack-towel
track, deer, footprints - slot
tragic hero’s fateful fault - hamartia
trail through mud - daggle
traitor - proditor
traitor (early Christian) - traditor
tranquility - ataraxy,
-xia
transfer (n. – a picture) - decalcomania
transfer to another, to - attorn
transgression - delict
transient - written
in water
transmitting light - luminiferous
transmute into sth. higher - sublimate
transparent - diaphanous,
pellucid
transparent blister
of the cuticle - bleb
transverse, binding
stone: wall - bandstone
travel about - peregrinate
travel from place to place - itinerate
treacherous - proditorious
treason - lese-majestie
treat ores, remove
impurities- beneficiate
treatise, comprehensive - pandect
tree, wood for Noah’s ark - gopher
tree-like - arborescent
tree-shaped - dendroid
tremble (to) - bever,
dindle
tremendous (blow, lie) - swingeing
treve
triangular - deltoid
tributary stream - influent
tricky, treacherous (of things) - trappy
trifle - falderal, fribble
trifle (to) - fribble, palter
trifle, potter - footle
trifles - nugae
trifles, useless; cast-off clothes - frippery
trifling ornament - fallal
trifling thing/amount
- birdseed
trill (grasshopper) - chirr
trill (nightjar) - churr
triptych, wing of - volet
trivial matters - small
beer
tropical fever - kala-azar
tropical forest twining plant - liana
troublesome - noyous
true meaning (fixed by law) - intendment
trust (to) - affy
truth drug - hyoscine,
scopolamine
truth/possibility, related to - alethic
truthful - veracious
tuft/hillock of grass - tussock
turf house in
Turkish palace guard
- bostangi
turn hand palm upward - supinate
turn inside out - evert
turn round with effort - slew
turn up unexpectedly
- blow
in
turned back to back (her) - addorsed
turned outwards (antlers) - extrorse
turned up (nose) - retroussé
turned up/forward - antrorse
twig, willow, to bind bundles - with
twiggy, rodlike; old land measure- virgate
twigs/shoots, of, producing - viminal
twilight - shutting,
gloaming
twilight (adj.) - crepuscular
twin - didymous
twist about - wigwag
twisted - tortive;
crankled
twisted inwards (thoughts) - retorqued
twisted; coiled - tortile
twists & turns, full of - crinkum-crankum
twitch (to) - vellicate
twitch, to - vellicate
two
two places at once,
being in - bilocation
two-forked - bifurcate
two-handed - bimanal,
bimanous
ugliness (B) - evil-favouredness
ulcered, tuberculosed - lupoid,
lupous
ulcerous - chancrous
umbilical cord - navel-string
unadulterated, pure - meracious
uncertain, accidental - contingent
uncouth fellow - galoot
undecided state - pendency
underburnt (brick, tile) - samel
underground - hypogeal,
-gean
underling - understrapper
underlying - subjacent
undermine (to), be troublesome - fossick
underrate - disprize
understanding, action of - intellection
undervalue, slight - misprise
underworld spirits, pert. to - chthonic
unemotional - cold-livered
unemployed - trade-fallen
uneven in outline - nook-shotten
unfair, unjust - inequitable
unhappiness, producing - infelicific
uniform colour, of - concolorous/-ate
unimaginable - incogitable
uninspired, routine (music)- kapellmeister
uninvited guest, to obtrude o.s. as - sorn
unique thing - nonesuch
unisexual - dioecious
unite closely - inosculate
unite, combine - coadunate
unite, serving to - conjunctive
unite/grow together - conglutinate
united - conjoint
united (efforts) - conjoint
uniting - copulative
universal (disease) - pandemic
University tutor (below prof.) - docent
unjust - wrongous
unknown cause, of - idiopathic
unloading, to begin - break
bulk
unmarried/widowed (woman) - discovert
unnamed - innominate
unpaid labour by vassal - corvée
unpardonable - irremissible
unreal; gaseous - aeriform
unrepentant - unregenerate
unruly, boisterous - rampacious
unsmiling,
expressionless - boot-faced
unsound (financial scheme) - wild-cat
unstable - labile
unsubstantial/light, to make - volatilise
unsuitable, out of place - malapropos
untidy, tawdry - tashed
unwelcome, to be - to
come amiss
unworthy - indign
upper lip - Cupid’s
bow
uproar, excessive noise - shindy
uproot - deracinate
upside down by twisting - resupinate
upstart - parvenu
upward-moving - anabatic
upwards, moving - ascensive
urge (to) - conjour
urinate - stale
urine, passing of - emiction;
micturition
urine-drops, painful passage of- strangury
use word before applicable - prolepsis
useless - inutile
useless (profitless) - bootless
utter indistinctly - bummle
vacillate, to - back
and fill (Naut.)
vagrant - gangrel;
sundowner
vagrants’ secret jargon - shelta
valedictory - apopemptic
valley (broad) - strath
valley, small - dean
value with a view to sale, to - appraise
valueless, flimsy, strawlike - stramineous
vanish, fade away - evanesce
Varangian guard, head of - acolouthos
variable, inconstant - protean
varieties (of all) - omnifarious
variety of pear - blanquet
varnish, make black & glossy - japan
vaulted ceiling, compartment of - severy
vein in upper arm,
large - basilic
vein
veins, arrangement of - venation
velvet; velvety - velure;
velutinous
vengeance - ultion,
wrake
vent, passage - spiracle
ventriloquist - engastrimyth
verbosity - verbiage
vertical, not - out
of plumb
very dear - au
poids de l’or
vessel bales out & carries water- spoucher
vessel, long neck, keep water cool- goglet
vicious character - rakehell
victory - gree
vigour, regaining - reviviscent
vigour-restoring - analeptic
vile - facinorous
village - clachan
village, big - borghetto
villein of the lowest
rank - bordar
vindication - compurgation
vine-like - ampelo-,
ampeli-
vineyard, vine
greenhouse - vinery
violation, breach - infraction
violent gust of wind
- blore
violent retching - vomiturition
violin (superior kind) -
viral disease of pigs
- blue
ear disease
viral disease of
sheep and cattle - blue
tongue
virgin birth - parthenogenesis
visceral, intestinal - splanchnic
viscous - slab
viscous, transparent
substance - glair
visible to naked eye - macroscopic
visible, become - heave
in sight
vivacity - brio
voice, loss of - aphonia,
aphony
voice; occasion - steven
voiceless - aphonous
voluminous writing - polygraphy
voluptuous, sensuous - Lydian
vomiting - anacatharsis
voracious reader - bibliophagist
vulgar, approp. to artisan - banausic
vulture, bearded - lammergeyer
vulture, South African - aasvogel
Waldensian teacher - barbe
walk idly - dander
walk on foot; rob on foot - pad
walk round about - circumambulate
walk springily, jerkily - tittup
walk with unsteady gait - shamble
walk, to - ambulate
walk, trudge, to - pad
the hoof
walking - ambulant;
deambulation
walking on soles - plantigrade
walking on toes - digitigrade
walking, adapted for - gressorial
wall to support bank - retaining
wall
wall, pert. to - parietal
wall, retaining - revetment
wall-picture, Japanese - kakemono
wander about; digress - divagate
wander aimlessly - obambulate
wander away; exceed bounds- extravagate
wander from the right way, to- aberrate
wandering minstrel - jongleur
want of knowledge - nescience
war, extermination - bellum
internecinum
ward off by prayer - deprecate
ward off, to - averruncate
warm, growing - incalescent
warm, making - calefacient,
calorifacient
warm-blooded - endothermic
warmed-up dish - rechauffé
warming - calefactory
warrior - kemp
warship, fast, flush-decked - corvette
washing out - lavage,
lavement
wasps, of - vespine
waste away by fasting - macerate
waste, spill, lose carelessly - slatter
waste; reabsorbed secretion- recrement
wasted by disease - tabid
wasting away - contabescent, tabetic
wasting away of body - marasmus
wasting disease, esp. tb - phthisis
watchglass-shaped - meniscoid
water channel, narrow - sluit
water, surrounded by - circumfluous
watercolour painting - aquarelle
watercourse (small, deepish) - spruit
watered (silk), clouded (metals) - moiré
waterfall - linn
water-lily - nenuphar
water-parsnip - skirret
watery vesicles, with - pemphigous,
-goid
watery, thin, whey-like - serous
wave hair (artificially) - marcel
wave, great (10th) - decuman
waved, marked with wavy lines - gyrose
wavy (as a leaf) - undated,
undose
wavy, serpentine, undulating - sinuous
wavy, slightly - repand
wavy-edged, (winding)- crispate,
(sinuate)
wax candle - bougie
wax, of or like - ceraceous
wayfarer - piepowder
weak, powerless - debile,
impuissant
weakness of will - acrasia
(adj. acratic)
wearied (with waking) - forwaked
wearing away - detrition
weary with fighting - forfoughten
weaving, pert. to - textorial
web-footed - palmiped
wedge, fasten - chock
weekly - hebdomadal
weep - pipe
one’s eyes
weeping & wailing - comploration
weigh by hand - heft
weighing coal/grain - metage
weight of vessel/container/wrapping- tare
well groomed - soigné
well, stone lining of - steening
well, wall round top of - puteal
well-known; conspicuous - kenspeckle
well-merited - condign
wet places, inhabiting - paludose
whack - whang
whale, white - beluga
whales etc, pert. to - cetacean
wharf - staith
wheel (of pulley) - sheave
wheel of life - zoetrope
wheel-shaped - rotate, trochal
whimper, whine - pule
whip of dried hide; to flog… - sjambok
whip, a hide - kourbash
whirling - vortical
whisky with a
beer-chaser - boiler-maker
whispering, rustling - susurrous
whistling, hissing sound - siffle
white - leucous
white and black - piebald
white and not black - skewbald
white of egg/eye, like - albugineous
white stripe down
face, with - bausond
white, growing - albescent
whiteness - albescence
whitlow - ancome
wicked - derf,
nefandous, scelerate, -rous
wickedness - litherness
wide-hipped - broad
in the beam
wife - helpmate
wig with the ends
turned up into short curls - bobwig
wild, untamed - feral
wildly enthusiastic - dithyrambic
William pear - bon
chrétien
will-o’-the-wisp - fen-fire,
friar’s lantern
win all the tricks (in piquet) - capot
win all tricks in one deal - vole
wind instrum, Anc. Greek - aulos
winding, circuitous - meandrine
winding, tortuous - anfractuous
windings, turnings, full of - flexuous
window-frame - casement
windswept ridges of snow - sastrugi
wine, new, to revive dead wine - stum
wine, to make - vint
wine-coloured - vinaceous
winged - alate,
aliferous, aligerous
winged; feathered - pennate
wingless - apterous
wink (to) - nict(it)ate,
palpebrate
wink at, to - connive
winter, requiring shelter in - half-hardy
wintry (foggy)- brumal,
hiemal (brumous)
wipe out (debt) - amortise
wiping/rubbing out - extersion
wire-rattle (rites
wish-bone - merry-thought
witch - besom-rider
with all due respect to… - pace
with difficulty - uneath
with parts not in contact - discontiguous
with sloping
shoulders, like a bottle of champagne - bottle-shouldered
withdraw (from a society) - secede
withering but not falling - marcescent
without - innocent
of
without equal - nonpareil
wolf down; move awkwardly - slummock
womanhood - muliebrity
woman-worship - gyneolatry
womb, mother (Law) - venter
women - distaff
side, spindle side
wonderful - mirable
wondrous, strange - selcouth
wood, feeding on - xylophagous
wood, grove - holt,
hurst
wood, growing on - lignicolous
wood, of - xyloid
wooded - arboreous,
arboraceous
wooded, bushy; shady - bosky
wooden flooring - parquet
wooden stand for cask - brandreth
woodland; thick foliage - boscage
woodpecker, green - yaffle
woodpigeon - cushat
wood-sorrel,
woolgathering - moonraking
woolly, (flaky) - lanate(d),
(flocculent)
woolly-haired - ulotrichous
word - vocable
word of God - the
sword of the spirit
word origin. copyist’s error - ghost-word
work very hard - blaze
away
workers’ rule - ergatocracy
working at a distance - telergic
working, not - out
of blast
wormlike - vermian
worm-like (motion) - vermicular,
-lated
worms, being eaten by - vermiculation
worm-shaped - helminthic,
helminthoid
worn by friction - attrited
worn out (with walking) - forraked
worthless, trifling - nugatory
wreath - crant,
lei
wreckage on sea-bed - lagan,
ligan
wrenched - wrast
wrinkle - rivel
wrinkled - rivelled,
rugose, writhled
wrinkle-free - exporrect
wrist, pert. to - carpal
write (begging letter) - screeve
write, unable to - agraphic
writer, poor, poorly paid - penny-a-liner
writhing involuntarily- athetoid,
-osic/otic
writing, given to - scribacious
writing-table/desk,
small, French, 18th C. - bonheur-du-jour
wrongful - tortious
wrongful dispossession - disseizin
wryneck - torticolllis
x-ray photograph - skiagram,
-graph
yard/paddock/croft/garden - garth
yawn, to - oscitate
yawning fit - the
gapes
yearning for unattainable - nympholepsy
yell, bawl - yowl
yellow (turning) - flavescent
yellow, (light yellow) - xanthous,
buff
yellow-brown, (pale) - filmote,
(écru)
yielding - lither
yoked, not - azygous
young again, to grow - rejuvenesce
youth - hobbledehoy,
springald
youth (from infancy to…) - juvenescence
zealous puritan - hot
gospeller
zodiac, group 3 signs of (w/e/a/f) - trigon
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