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- BORAXA white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on por
- BOVINEOf, relating to, or characteristic of cattle, buffaloes, or bison.
- BRUTALSavagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an unintelligent manner.
- CADENTFalling.
- CANARYA small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
- CANTORA singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony.
- CAPUTThe head.
- CATNIPAny of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities.
- CONDUITA channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc. A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.
- CREATETo bring into existence;
- CREATORSomething or someone which creates or makes something.
- DAINTYElegant; delicately small and pretty.
- DAMEUsually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
- DELIRIUMA temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations.
- DELUGEA great flood or rain.
- DELUSIONAn adamant belief in a falsehood despite incontestable evidence.
- DEMARKTo demarcate.
- DENSITYThe amount of a certain phenomenon (such as stuff, things, energy, or otherwise) in a given area (surface area) or volume (amount of space).
- DEVIOUSCunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
- DEVOUTDevoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious; godly.
- DIREWarning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- DIVERTTo turn aside from a course.
- DOGEThe chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
- DUPEA person who has been deceived.
- EXILEThe state of being banished from one's home or country.
- FADEWeak; insipid; tasteless.
- FERALWild; untamed.
- FESTA gathering for a specified reason or occasion.
- FIDUCIARYRelating to an entity that owes to another good faith, accountability and trust, often in the context of trusts and trustees.
- FINITEHaving an end or limit; constrained by bounds; whose number of elements is a natural number.
- FORENSICRelating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.
- FRACTTo break; to violate.
- FRANTICInsane, mentally unstable.
- FULCRUMThe support about which a lever pivots.
- FUSILEThat can be melted; meltable
- FUTILEIncapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
- GLUTAn excess, too much.
- GRANULEA tiny grain, a small particle.
- HABITAn action performed on a regular basis.
- HYBRIDOffspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
- JESTAn act performed for amusement; a joke.
- JOUSTA tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
- JUXTAPOSETo place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.
- LABIAThe folds of tissue of the vulva, at either side of the vulval vestibule.
- LEPROSYAn infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantini
- LEVANTA disappearing or absconding after losing a bet.
- LEVITYA lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
- LIBERSynonym of phloem.
- LINEARHaving the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.
- LOACHA bottom-feeding freshwater fish in the superfamily or suborder Cobitoidea. Any true loach, of the family Cobitidae. A similar fish in one of three other families of Cypriniformes:
- LORATEHaving the form of a thong or strap.
- LUMENIn the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm.
- MALAA single lobe of an insect's maxilla. The grinding surface of an insect's mandible. The third segment of a mandible of some myriapods.
- MALIGNEvil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
- MANETUsed in stage directions; literally, he, she or it remains. Compare exit, exeunt.
- MANURETo cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
- MASCOTSomething thought to bring good luck.
- MATTERMaterial; substance. Anything with mass and volume. Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
- MISERA person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.
- MODESTNot bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble.
- MOILTo toil, to work hard.
- MUREwall
- MUSKETA kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock,
- MUSTARDA plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods).
- MUSTYAffected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.
- ORGANICPertaining to or derived from living organisms.
- PARITYEquality; comparability of strength or intensity.
- PASTORSomeone who tends to a flock of animals: synonym of shepherd.
- PATEThe head, particularly the top or crown.
- PEATSoil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
- PIETYReverence and devotion to God.
- PIGMENTAny color in plant or animal cells.
- PONSA bridge-like tissue connecting two parts of an organ.
- PRESTIGEThe quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
- PRISONA place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered und
- PUBESplural of pubis (“pubic bones”)
- PULSATETo expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat, exhibit a pulse.
- PUMICEA light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbl
- PUTRIDRotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.
- QUADClipping of quadrat. A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
- QUALEAn instance of a subjective, conscious experience.
- RABIDAffected with rabies.
- RABIESAn infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitem
- RAISINA dried grape.
- RANCIDRank in taste or smell.
- RAPTSnatched, taken away; abducted.
- REGIMEMode of rule or management.
- RENALPertaining to the kidneys.
- RESIDENTA person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
- RITEA religious custom.
- ROYALOf or relating to a monarch or his (or her) family.
- SALIENTWorthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
- SALINEContaining salt; salty.
- SAVAGEWild; not cultivated or tamed.
- SAVIORA person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.
- SECULARNot specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
- SENTRYA guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
- SILICONA nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.
- SKEPTICALHaving, or expressing doubt; questioning.
- SOLVENTA fluid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution.