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- ANIMAThe soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.
- ASPERITYThe quality of having a rough or uneven surface; roughness, unevenness; a protruding or rough area or point on a surface; a protrusion.
- BIGHTA corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
- BOURNEA boundary; a limit.
- CLEWA roughly spherical mass or body.
- COVEYA brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).
- HANDFASTA hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping.
- HEDDLEA component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
- LEXICONThe vocabulary of a language.
- OASTA kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops.
- ONAGERThe Asiatic wild ass or hemione (Equus hemionus), an animal of the horse family native to Asia; specifically, the Persian onager, Persian wild ass, or Persian zebra (Equus hemionus
- PAEANA chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.
- POMACEThe pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.
- PRATETalk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
- PYTHONICOf or pertaining to, or resembling, a python (“large constricting snake of the family Pythonidae”); pythonlike.
- SEELGood; fortunate; opportune; happy.
- SPILEA splinter.
- SUBORNTo induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner.
- SWAINA young man or boy in service; a servant.
- SWARTOf a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
- VULPINEPertaining to a fox.
- WAINA wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
- WEALDA forest or wood.
- WHINGETo whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
- WIGHTA living creature, especially a human being.
- WROTHFull of anger; wrathful.