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- ACRIMONYA sharp and bitter hatred.
- BEETEDBeta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
- BREVETA military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay.
- CALTROPA metal object, usually small, with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to pedestrians, horses, and vehicles (also used as a heral
- CHAMFERAn obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- CORPSA battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
- DUBIOUSArousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.
- ESCHEATThe return, conversion, or vesting of property of a deceased person or closed business to the government (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.
- EXHUMETo dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
- FLEMISHEllipsis of Flemish coil (“a rope that has been arranged into a neat, flat spiral coil”).
- GERUNDA verbal form that functions as a verbal noun.
- IGNOBLENot noble; plebeian; common.
- PLATONICSNeither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love.
- PLAUDITA mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.
- PROGENYOffspring or descendants considered as a group.
- PROLIXTediously lengthy; dwelling on trivial details.
- REPLICAAn exact copy.
- REVOLUTIONA political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
- SEGMENTA length of some object.
- SERGEANTA UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
- SLUICEAn artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- TACITImplied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.
- TITULAROf, relating to, being, derived from, or having a title.
- TREFOILAny of several plants of the pea family, having compound, trifoliate leaves; especially one of the genus Trifolium.
- TRESTLEA horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
- TUBULARShaped like a tube.
- TUITIONThe training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
- TURBIDHaving the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear.
- UNDULATETo cause to move in a wavelike motion.
- VISAGECountenance; one's face.
- VOLUTEThe characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.
- WYVERNA draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail.