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- ABOIDEAUA tide gate, designed to protect marshland, so constructed as to let out water at low tide, but to prevent an influx of water at high tide.
- BOUTADEA sudden outbreak or outburst; a caprice, a whim.
- BYCOKETA type of medieval cap with a wide brim that comes to a point in the front and is turned up at the rear, originally worn by Western European nobility and royalty.
- CAPOTA winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.
- COQUETRYCoquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.
- CORONISA device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞.
- ENVOYA diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador.
- ESCARGOTA dish, commonly associated with French cuisine, consisting of edible snails.
- EXONAn officer of the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
- FLOCA floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.
- FOGLEA handkerchief.
- GELATINOUSJelly-like.
- LAICITYThe control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay.
- MALADROITNot adroit; awkward, clumsy, inept.
- NITERIEA nightclub or nightspot.
- PAWLA pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to mov
- PHAETONa light four-wheeled open carriage drawn by four horses
- PICOTAn embroidery trim made of a series of small loops.
- PINOCHLEA card game, similar to bezique.
- ROYNISHMangy; scabby.
- THYMOLa monoterpene phenol, C10H13OH, found in the oil extracted from thyme; used as in perfume, as an antiseptic and fungicide, and in embalming
- VELODROMEAn indoor arena, having an oval banked track for bicycle racing.
- WARISONA war cry played to order the soldiers to attack (normally played on a bugle).