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
ha