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- ABLUTIONThe act of washing something. Originally, the purifying of oils and other substances by emulsification with hot water; now more generally, a thorough cleansing of a precipitate or
- ABNEGATOROne who abnegates, denies, or rejects.
- ABROGATETo annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.
- ADUMBRATETo foreshadow vaguely.
- ADUMBRATIONThe state of being in shadow or shade; a shadow.
- ALCIDA bird of the family Alcidae, including auks, auklets, razorbills, dovekies, guillemots, and puffins.
- APHISAn aphid.
- ARBUSCLEA plant midway in height between a shrub and a tree; a dwarf tree.
- BACULINEOf or pertaining to a rod or cane, or punishment with either of them.
- BEZANTA coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.
- BIVIOUSHaving, or leading, two ways.
- BOVIDAn animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, cattle, goat, and sheep).
- CALXThe substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognise
- DERIVATIONA leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- DILUVIANPertaining to a deluge, or flood.
- DRACHMA small unit of weight, variously: One sixteenth (1⁄16) of an ounce avoirdupois (1.77 g; symbol: ʒ). One eighth (1⁄8) of an ounce apothecary (3.89 g; symbol: ʒ). Alternative form o
- EXARCHIn the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province.
- EXORDIUMA beginning.
- EXULTANCYexultance, exultation
- FALXA short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
- FECUNDHighly fertile; able to produce offspring.
- FECUNDITYAbility to produce offspring.
- FLAVESCENTyellowish in colour, or turning yellow
- FURCATEForked, branched; divided at one end into parts.
- INCURVATEbending inwards.
- INHUMATETo inhume; to bury.
- INHUMETo bury in a grave.
- INSCULPTo engrave; to carve; to sculpt.
- LAPIDISTA lapidary (“person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones; expert in gems and precious stones”).
- MIGRATIONAn instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
- MUCIDMusty; mouldy; slimy or mucous.
- NIVEOUSSnowy; resembling snow.
- PLANISHTo repeatedly hammer (a sheet of metal) so as to shape and smooth it or create a decorative indented finish.
- PONDEROSAA pine tree of very large size, native to western North America (Pinus ponderosa).
- QUERISTA person who queries or asks questions; an interrogator, a questioner.
- QUINTICOf or relating to the fifth degree, such as a quintic polynomial which has the form ax5+bx4+cx3+dx2+ex+f=0 (containing a term with the independent variable raised to the fifth powe
- ROMANTICOf a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.
- TEPEFYTo cause to become tepid
- THEURGICOf, or pertaining to, theurgy.
- UNGUALPertaining to or resembling a creature's nail, claw or hoof; unguinal.
- UNGULATEHaving hooves.
- VALETUDINARYSickly, infirm, valetudinarian.
- VARIATIONThe act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
- VICARIOUSDelegated.
- VOCIFERATETo cry out with vehemence