Hairstyles
- Afro,
- beehive,
- bob,
- bouffant,
- bun,
- bunches,
- buzz cut,
- chignon,
- corn row,
- crew cut,
- crop,
- dreadlocks,
- duck's arse or DA,
- Eton crop,
- feather-cut,
- flat top,
- French pleat or roll,
- marcel or marcel wave,
- mohican,
- mullet,
- pageboy,
- perm or permanent wave,
- pigtail,
- plait,
- pompadour,
- ponytail,
- pouf,
- razor-cut,
- shingle,
- skinhead,
- wedge
Hat
- Akubra (Austral. trademark),
- anadem (poetic),
- babushka,
- Balaclava helmet or Balaclava,
- Balmoral or bluebonnet,
- bandanna or bandana,
- bandeau,
- barret,
- baseball cap,
- basinet or bascinet,
- beanie or beany,
- bearskin,
- beaver,
- beret, billycock (rare, chiefly Brit.),
- biretta or berretta,
- blackcap,
- bluebonnet or bluecap,
- boater,
- bonnet,
- bowler or (U.S. & Canad.) derby,
- broadbrim,
- busby,
- calash or caleche,
- calotte,
- calpac,
- calpack, or kalpak,
- capuche or capouch,
- castor,
- chaplet,
- cheese cutter,
- circlet,
- cloche,
- cloth cap,
- cocked hat,
- coif,
- commode,
- coonskin,
- cornet,
- coronet,
- cossack hat,
- crash helmet,
- crown,
- curch or curchef,
- deerstalker,
- diadem,
- Dolly Varden,
- dunce cap,
- earmuff,
- fascinator (rare),
- fedora,
- fez,
- flat cap, fool's cap,
- forage cap,
- frontlet or frontal,
- Gandhi cap,
- glengarry,
- hard hat,
- havelock,
- headband,
- headdress,
- heaume,
- helmet,
- homburg,
- hood,
- Juliet cap,
- keffiyeh,
- kaffiyeh, or kufiyah,
- kepi,
- laurels,
- leghorn,
- liberty cap,
- lum-hat (Scot.),
- mitre,
- mobcap or mob,
- montero,
- morion,
- mortarboard,
- trencher, or trencher cap, mutch,
- nightcap,
- opera hat or gibus,
- Panama hat,
- paper hat,
- peaked cap,
- petasus,
- Phrygian cap,
- picture hat,
- pillbox,
- pinner,
- pith helmet, topee, or topi,
- poke or poke bonnet,
- porkpie hat,
- sailor hat,
- sallet,
- salet, or salade,
- shako or shacko,
- shovel hat,
- shower cap,
- silk hat,
- skullcap,
- slouch hat,
- snood,
- sombrero,
- songkok,
- sou'wester or nor'wester,
- stetson,
- stocking cap,
- stovepipe,
- straw hat,
- sunbonnet,
- sunhat,
- taj,
- tam-o'-shanter or tammy (Scot.),
- tarboosh,
- tarbouche or tarbush,
- tarpaulin,
- ten-gallon hat,
- tiara,
- tin hat (informal),
- tricorn or tricorne,
- toorie or tourie (Scot.),
- top hat,
- topper (informal),
- toque,
- tricorn,
- trilby,
- tuque,
- turban,
- veil,
- visor or vizor,
- watch cap,
- wimple,
- yarmulke.
heart
- aorta,
- atrium or auricle,
- bicuspid valve,
- pulmonary artery,
- pulmonary vein,
- semilunar valve,
- septum,
- tricuspid valve,
- vena cava,
- ventricle.
Heraldry terms
- achievement,
- annulet, argent,
- armes parlantes,
- armiger, armory,
- bandeau, bar, base,
- baton, bearing, bend,
- bend sinister,
- bezzant,
- bezant, or byzant,
- blazon, blazonry,
- bordure, cadency,
- canting arms,
- canton,
- chaplet,
- charge, checky,
- chevron, chief, cinquefoil,
- Clarenceux, coat armour,
- coat of arms, cockatrice,
- cognizance or cognisance,
- college of arms,
- compony or compone,
- coronet, couchant,
- crescent, crest,
- cross,
- crosslet, crown,
- dexter, difference,
- dimidiate, dormant,
- eagle,
- embattled,
- emblazon,
- ermine,
- escutcheon,
- falcon,
- fesse or fess,
- field, fillet,
- fleur-de-lis or fleur-de-lys,
- flory or fleury,
- fret, fur,
- fusil,
- garland,
- giron or gyron,
- gironny or gyronny,
- griffon,
- guardant or gardant,
- gules,
- hatchment,
- herald,
- heraldic or fetial,
- impale or empale,
- inescutcheon,
- issuant,
- king-of-arms, label,
- leopard, lion,
- lozenge,
- lozengy,
- Lyon King of Arms,
- mantling or lambrequin,
- mascle or voided lozenge,
- matriculation,
- moline,
- naissant,
- nombril,
- octofoil,
- officer of arms, or, ordinary,
- orle, pale, pall, paly,
- parted, party,
- passant,
- pean, pile, potent,
- proper, purpure,
- pursuivant,
- quarter, quartered,
- quartering,
- quarterly,
- rampant,
- rebus,
- regardant,
- roundel,
- sable,
- saltire,
- sejant or sejeant,
- scutcheon,
- semé (of) or semée (of),
- shield, sinister,
- spread eagle,
- statant,
- sun in splendour,
- supporter,
- torse,
- tressure,
- urdé or urdée,
- urinant,
- vair, vert,
- voided, volant,
- wreath,
- wyvern,
- yale
Historical events
- Agincourt, Alamo,
- American Civil War or (chiefly U.S.) the War between the States,
- Armistice,
- Battle of Hastings,
- Black Death,
- Bloody Sunday,
- Boer War,
- Boston Tea Party,
- Boxer Rebellion,
- Charge of the Light Brigade,
- Civil War, Cold War,
- Crimean War,
- Crusades,
- Cultural Revolution,
- D-day,
- Declaration of Independence,
- Depression,
- Diet of Worms,
- Easter Rising,
- French Revolution,
- General Strike,
- Gettysburg Address,
- Glorious Revolution,
- Gordon Riots,
- Great Fire of London,
- Great Schism,
- Great Trek,
- Gunpowder Plot,
- Hiroshima,
- Holocaust,
- Hundred Years War,
- Hungarian Uprising,
- Indian Mutiny,
- Industrial Revolution,
- Jacobite Rebellion,
- Korean War,
- Kristallnacht or Crystal Night,
- Long March,
- Magna Carta,
- Munich Agreement,
- Night of the Long Knives,
- Napoleonic Wars,
- Norman Conquest,
- Pearl Harbor,
- Peasants' Revolt,
- Peterloo Massacre,
- Potato Famine,
- Reformation,
- Reign of Terror,
- Renaissance,
- Restoration,
- Risorgimento,
- Russian Revolution,
- Saint Valentine's Day Massacre,
- South Sea Bubble,
- Spanish Armada,
- Spanish Civil War,
- Spanish Inquisition,
- Suez Crisis,
- Thirty Years' War,
- Tiananmen Square Massacre,
- Trafalgar,
- Treaty of Versailles,
- Vietnam War,
- Wall Street Crash,
- Wars of the Roses,
- Watergate,
- Waterloo
- adobe,
- apartment,
- back-to-back,
- barrack,
- bedsitter,
- black house (Scot.),
- board-and-shingle (Caribbean),
- boarding house,
- booth,
- bungalow,
- bunker,
- but and ben (Scot.),
- cabin,
- caboose (Canad.),
- camboose,
- Cape Cod cottage,
- caravan,
- castle,
- chalet,
- chateau or château,
- chattel house,
- consulate,
- cot or cote (dialect),
- cottage,
- cottage flat,
- crannog,
- croft,
- dacha (Russian),
- deanery,
- digs,
- doss house,
- duplex or duplex apartment (U.S. & Canad.),
- embassy,
- farmhouse,
- flat,
- flatlet,
- flophouse,
- flotel,
- garret,
- grange,
- guest house,
- hacienda,
- hall, hogan,
- hostel,
- hotel,
- house,
- houseboat,
- hovel,
- hut,
- igloo or iglu,
- inn,
- lake dwelling,
- lodge,
- log cabin,
- long house,
- maisonette,
- manor,
- manse,
- mansion,
- mattamore,
- mews (informal),
- mobile home,
- motel,
- motor caravan,
- mud hut,
- palace,
- parsonage,
- penthouse,
- pied-à-terre,
- prefab,
- priory,
- ranch,
- rath (Irish),
- rectory,
- rest-home,
- roadhouse,
- semi,
- shack,
- shanty,
- shooting box,
- show house,
- single-end (Scot. dialect),
- slum,
- starter home,
- stately home,
- studio flat,
- tavern,
- tenement,
- tent,
- tepee,
- town house,
- trailer (U.S. & Canad.),
- tree house,
- tupik or tupek (Canad.),
- vicarage,
- villa, whare (N.Z.),
- wigwam.
Hormones
- adrenaline or epinephrine,
- adrenocorticotrophic hormone,
- androsterone,
- antidiuretic hormone,
- bursicon, calcitonin,
- cholecystokinin or pancreozymin,
- chorionic gonadotrophin,
- corpus luteum hormone or progesterone,
- corticosteroid, corticosterone or adrenocorticotrophic hormone,
- cortisone,
- deoxycorticosterone,
- ecdysone,
- enterogastrone,
- erythropoietin,
- florigen,
- follicle-stimulating hormone,
- glucagon,
- gibberellic acid,
- gastrin,
- gonadotrophin,
- growth hormone or somatotrophin,
- insulin,
- interstitial-cell-stimulating hormone or luteinizing hormone,
- juvenile hormone,
- lactogenic hormone,
- luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone,
- luteotrophin or prolactin,
- noradrenaline,
- oestradiol,
- oestriol,
- oestrone,
- oxytocin,
- progesterone,
- parathyroid hormone,
- relaxin,
- secretin,
- sex hormone,
- somatomedin,
- somatostatin,
- stilboestrol,
- testosterone,
- thyroid-stimulating hormone or thyrotropin,
- thyroxine,
- trichlorophenoxyacetic acid,
- triiodothyronine,
- vasopressin
horse
- carthorse,
- cavalry horse,
- cayuse (Western U.S. & Canad.),
- charger, cob, courser (literary), cow pony,
- crock, destrier (archaic),
- drayhorse, hack,
- high-stepper, hunter,
- liberty horse, nag,
- night horse (Austral.),
- packhorse,
- palfrey (archaic),
- pacer, packhorse,
- plug (chiefly U.S.),
- polo pony, pony,
- racehorse or (Austral. informal) neddy, rip (informal, archaic),
- running mate,
- saddle horse or saddler,
- screw (slang),
- show jumper,
- stalking-horse,
- stockhorse,
- sumpter (archaic), trooper,
- warhorse,
- weed,
- workhorse
invertebrates
- amoeba or (U.S.) ameba,
- animalcule or animalculum,
- arrowworm, arthropod,
- bivalve,
- bladder worm,
- box jellyfish or (Austral.) sea wasp,
- brachiopod or lamp shell,
- brandling,
- bryozoan or (colloquial) sea mat,
- catworm, white worm, or white cat, centipede,
- chicken louse,
- chiton or coat-of-mail shell,
- clam,
- clappy-doo or clabby-doo (Scot.),
- cockle, cone (shell), coral,
- crown-of-thorns,
- ctenophore or comb jelly,
- cuttlefish or cuttle,
- daphnia,
- earthworm, eelworm,
- gaper,
- gapeworm,
- gastropod,
- Guinea worm,
- horseleech,
- jellyfish,
- lancelet or amphioxus,
- leech,
- liver fluke,
- lugworm,
- lug, or lobworm,
- lungworm,
- millipede, millepede, or milleped,
- mollusc,
- mussel,
- octopus or devilfish,
- otter shell, oyster,
- paddle worm,
- paper nautilus, nautilus, or argonaut,
- pearly nautilus, nautilus, or chambered nautilus,
- piddock,
- Portuguese man-of-war,
- quahog, hard-shell clam, hard-shell, or round clam,
- ragworm or (U.S.) clamworm,
- razor-shell or (U.S.) razor clam,
- red coral or precious coral,
- roundworm,
- sandworm,
- scallop, sea anemone,
- sea cucumber, sea lily,
- sea mouse,
- sea pen,
- sea slater, sea squirt,
- sea urchin, seed oyster,
- soft-shell (clam), sponge,
- squid, starfish,
- stomach worm, stony coral,
- sunstar, tapeworm,
- tardigrade or water bear,
- tellin, teredo or shipworm,
- trepang or bêche-de-mer,
- tube worm, tubifex,
- tusk shell or tooth shell,
- Venus's flower basket,
- Venus's-girdle,
- Venus shell,
- vinegar eel,
- vinegar worm, or eelworm,
- water louse or water slater,
- water measurer,
- water stick insect,
- wheatworm,
- whipworm,
- woodborer,
- worm
KITCHEN EQUIPMENT
- Aga (trademark),
- bain-marie,
- baking tray,
- barbecue or (Austral. slang) barbie,
- batterie de cuisine,
- blender,
- bottle opener,
- bread knife,
- cafetiere,
- cake tin,
- carving knife,
- casserole,
- chip pan,
- chopping board,
- chopsticks,
- coffee grinder,
- coffeepot,
- colander,
- cooker,
- cooling rack,
- corkscrew,
- deep fat fryer,
- dessertspoon,
- double saucepan or (U.S. & Canad.) double boiler,
- egg beater or egg whisk,
- fan-assisted oven,
- fish slice,
- flan tin,
- food processor,
- fork,
- frying pan,
- grater,
- gravy boat or sauce boat,
- griddle or (Scot.) girdle,
- grill,
- ice-cream maker,
- icing bag,
- jelly bag,
- juicer or juice extractor,
- kettle,
- knife,
- masher,
- mould,
- ladle,
- lemon squeezer,
- liquidizer,
- loaf tin,
- mandoline,
- measuring jug,
- mezzaluna,
- microwave or microwave oven,
- mixing bowl,
- mortar and pestle,
- nutcracker,
- olla,
- oven,
- pastry cutter,
- peeler,
- pepper mill,
- percolator,
- poacher, pot,
- pot-au-feu,
- ramekin, ricer (U.S. & Canad.),
- rolling pin,
- rotisserie,
- saucepan,
- scales,
- sieve,
- skillet,
- spatula,
- spoon,
- spurtle,
- steamer,
- strainer,
- tablespoon,
- tagine,
- tandoor,
- teapot,
- teaspoon,
- tenderizer,
- timbale,
- tin-opener,
- toaster,
- toasting fork,
- whisk,
- wok,
- wooden spoon
Law terms
- abandonee,
- abate, abator, abet,
- abeyance, able, absente reo, absolute,
- acceptance (Contract law),
- accessory or accessary, accretion, accrue,
- accusation, accusatorial, accuse,
- accused, the, acquit, action, actionable,
- act of God, adjective,
- ad litem, adminicle, administration order,
- admissible, adopt, adult, advocate,
- advocation, affiant,
- affidavit,
- affiliate or filiate, affiliation or filiation, affiliation order,
- affiliation proceedings or (U.S.) paternity suit,
- affirm, affirmation,
- affray, agist, alibi,
- alienable, alienate, alienation, alienee, alienor,
- alimony, allege,
- alluvion, ambulatory,
- a mensa et thoro, amerce (obsolete),
- amicus curiae, amnesty, ancient,
- annulment, answer,
- Anton Piller order, appeal, appearance,
- appellant, appellate, appellee, appendant, approve, arbitrary,
- arbitration, arraign, array, arrest judgment,
- arrest of judgement,
- articled clerk, assault, assessor, assets,
- assign, assignee, assignment, assignor,
- assumpsit, attach, attachment, attainder,
- attaint (archaic), attorn, attorney,
- attorney-at-law, attorney general,
- authentic, authority,
- automatism, aver, avoid, avoidance,
- avow (rare), avulsion, award,
- bail, bailable,
- bailee (Contract law),
- bailiff,
- bailiwick, bailment (Contract law),
- bailor (Contract law), bailsman (rare), ban,
- bankrupt, bar, baron (English law),
- barratry or barretry,
- barrister or barrister-at-law, bench, the, bencher, beneficial,
- beneficiary, bequeath, bequest, bigamy,
- bill of attainder,
- bill of indictment,
- bill of sale,
- blasphemy or blasphemous libel,
- body corporate,
- bona fides,
- bona vacantia,
- bond, bondsman,
- breach of promise,
- breach of the peace,
- breach of trust, brief, briefless,
- bring,
- burden of proof,
- capias, capital, caption,
- carnal knowledge,
- cartulary or chartulary,
- case, case law,
- case stated or stated case,
- cassation, cause,
- caution, CAV, Cur. adv. vult, or Curia advisari vult,
- caveat, caveator,
- certificate of incorporation (Company law),
- chamber counsel or counsellor, chambers,
- certification,
- certiorari, cessor,
- cessionary,
- challenge,
- challenge to the array,
- challenge to the polls,
- champerty, chance-medley,
- chancery,
- change of venue, charge, chargeable, cheat,
- chief justice, chose, circuit (English law),
- citation, cite,
- civil death,
- civil marriage,
- clerk to the justices,
- close, codicil,
- codification,
- coexecutor, cognizable or cognisable,
- cognizance or cognisance,
- collusion,
- come on,
- commitment,
- committal, or (especially formerly) mittimus, common,
- commonage, common law,
- commutable, commutation, commute,
- competence, competency, competent,
- complainant, complaint (English law),
- complete (Land law), compound,
- compliance officer, composition,
- compurgation,
- conclusion, condemn, condition, condone,
- confiscate, connivance, connive,
- conscience clause, consensual, consideration,
- consolidation, consortium, constituent, constitute,
- constructive, contempt, contentious,
- continuance (U.S.),
- contraband, contract, contractor,
- contributory (Company law),
- contributory negligence,
- contumacy, convene,
- conventional, conversion, convert,
- conveyance,
- convincing,
- coparcenary or coparceny,
- coparcener or parcener,
- copyhold,
- copyholder,
- co-respondent, coroner,
- coroner's inquest,
- coroner's jury,
- corpus delicti,
- corpus juris,
- Corpus Juris Civilis, costs, counsel,
- counselor or counselor-at-law (U.S.), count,
- countercharge,
- counterclaim, counterpart,
- countersign,
- county court, court,
- court of first instance, covenant,
- coverture, covin,
- criminal conversation,
- criminate (rare),
- cross-examine,
- crown court (English law), cruelty,
- culpa (Civil law), culprit,
- cumulative evidence,
- custodian, custody, custom, customary,
- cy pres, damages,
- damnify, dead letter, debatable,
- decedent (chiefly U.S.), declarant, declaration,
- declaratory, decree, decree absolute,
- decree nisi,
- deed, deed poll, defalcate,
- defamation, default,
- defeasible, defeat, defence, defendant,
- deferred sentence,
- de jure,
- delict (Roman law), demand,
- demandant,
- demisit sine prole,
- demur, demurrer,
- denunciation (obsolete),
- deodand (English law),
- deponent, depose,
- deposition,
- deraign or darraign (obsolete),
- dereliction,
- descendible or descendable, desertion,
- detainer, determinable,
- determination, determine,
- detinue, devil, devisable, devise,
- devolve,
- dies non or dies non juridicus, digest,
- diligence,
- diminished responsibility,
- direct evidence,
- disaffirm,
- disafforest or disforest (English law),
- disannul, disbar, discharge,
- disclaim, discommon,
- discontinue, discovert, discovery,
- disinherit, dismiss, disorderly,
- disorderly conduct,
- disorderly house,
- dissent, distrain or distress, distrainee,
- distraint, distributee (chiefly U.S.),
- distribution, distringas, disturbance,
- dividend, divorce from bed and board (U.S.),
- docket, documentation,
- Doe,
- domain, donee,
- donor, dot (Civil law),
- dotation, dowable, dower,
- droit,
- due process of law,
- duress,
- earnest or earnest money (Contract law),
- effectual, emblements,
- eminent domain,
- empanel or impanel,
- encumbrance, encumbrancer,
- enfranchise (English law), engross,
- engrossment,
- enjoin, enter,
- equitable, equity,
- escheat, escrow,
- estop, estoppel, estovers,
- estray, estreat, evict,
- evidence, evocation (French law),
- examination, examine, examine-in-chief,
- exception, execute, execution,
- executor or (fem.) executrix,
- executory,
- exemplary damages, exemplify, exhibit,
- ex parte, expectancy, expropriate, extend,
- extent (U.S.), extinguish,
- extraditable, extradite,
- extrajudicial,
- eyre (English legal history),
- fact,
- factor (Commercial law), false imprisonment,
- Family Division, felo de se, feme, feme covert,
- feme sole,
- fiction,
- fideicommissary (Civil law),
- fideicommissum (Civil law),
- fiduciary or fiducial, fieri facias, file,
- filiate, filiation, find, finding, first offender,
- fiscal, flaw, folio, forbearance,
- force majeure, foreclose, foreign, foreman,
- forensic, forensic medicine,
- legal medicine, or medical jurisprudence,
- forest, forfeit, forjudge or forejudge,
- fornication, free, fungible, garnish, garnishee,
- garnishment, gavelkind (English law), gist,
- goods and chattels, grand jury (chiefly U.S.),
- grand larceny, grantee, grant, grantor, gratuitous,
- gravamen, grith (English legal history),
- ground rent, guarantee, guardian, guilty,
- habeas corpus, hand down (U.S. & Canad.),
- handling, hear, hearing, hearsay,
- heir or (fem.) heiress (Civil law),
- heirship, hereditary, heres or haeres (Civil law),
- heritable, heritage, heritor, holder, homologate,
- hung jury, hypothec (Roman law),
- hypothecate, immovable, impartible,
- impediment, imperfect, implead (rare),
- imprescriptable, in articles, in banc,
- in camera, incapacitate, incapacity,
- in chancery, incompetent, incorporeal,
- incriminate, indefeasible, indemnity, indenture,
- indeterminate sentence, inducement, in escrow,
- infant, in fee, inferior court, infirm,
- in flagrante delicto or flagrante delicto,
- ingoing, inheritance, injunction, injury,
- innuendo, in personam, in posse, inquest,
- inquisition, inquisitorial, in rem, insanity,
- in specie, instanter, institutes, instruct, instructions,
- instrument, insurable interest,
- intendment, intent, intention,
- interdict (Civil law), interlocutory, interplead,
- interpleader, interrogatories, intervene,
- inter vivos, intestate, invalidate,
- in venter, ipso jure, irrepleviable or irreplevisable,
- issuable, issue, jail delivery (English law), jeopardy,
- joinder, joint, jointress, jointure, judge,
- judge-made, judges' rules, judgment or judgement,
- judgment by default, judicable, judicative,
- judicatory, judicature, judicial,
- judicial separation (Family law), judiciary,
- junior, jural, jurat, juratory, juridical, jurisconsult,
- jurisprudence, jurisprudent, jurist, juristic, juror, jury,
- juryman or (fem.) jurywoman, jury process, jus,
- jus gentium (Roman law), jus naturale (Roman law),
- jus sanguinis, jus soli, justice, justice court,
- justice of the peace, justiciable,
- justices in eyre (English legal history), justify, juvenile court,
- laches, land, lapse, larceny, Law French,
- Law Lords, law merchant (Mercantile law),
- lawsuit, law term,
- lawyer, leasehold,
- leaseholder, legist, letters of administration,
- lex loci, lex non scripta, lex scripta,
- lex talionis, libel, lien, limit, limitation,
- lis pendens, litigable, litigant, litigation,
- locus standi, magistrate,
- magistrates' court or petty sessions,
- maintenance, malfeasance, malice, manager,
- mandamus, mandate (Roman or Contract law),
- manslaughter, manus, mare clausum, mare liberum,
- material, matter,
- mayhem or maihem,
- memorandum,
- mens rea, mental disorder,
- mental impairment,
- merger, merits, mesne, ministerial,
- misadventure, mise,
- misfeasance,
- misjoinder,
- mispleading,
- mistrial, misuser,
- mittimus, monopoly,
- moral, moratorium,
- morganatic or left-handed,
- mortgagee,
- mortmain or (less commonly) dead hand, motion,
- moveable or movable, muniments, mute, naked,
- Napoleonic Code, necessaries, negligence,
- next friend, nisi, nisi prius (history or U.S.),
- nolle prosequi, nol. pros., or nolle pros.,
- nolo contendere (chiefly U.S.), nonage, non compos mentis,
- nonfeasance, nonjoinder, non liquet,
- non prosequitur or non pros., nonsuit,
- notary public, not guilty, novation,
- novel (Roman law), nude,
- nudum pactum, nuisance, oath,
- obiter dictum, obligation, oblivion,
- obreption, obscene, obtaining by deception,
- occupancy, occupant, offer (Contract law),
- Official Referee, onerous, onomastic,
- on, upon or under oath, onus probandi, open,
- opening, ordinary, overt, owelty,
- oyer (English legal history),
- oyer and terminer, panel, paraphernalia,
- pardon, parol, Particulars of Claim, party,
- paterfamilias (Roman law), peculium (Roman law),
- pecuniary, pecuniary advantage, pendente lite,
- perception, peremptory, persistent cruelty,
- personal, personal property or personalty,
- petit, petition, petitioner, petit jury or petty jury,
- petit larceny or petty larceny, petty, place of safety order,
- plaint, plaintiff, plea, plea bargaining,
- plead, pleading, pleadings, portion,
- port of entry, posse, posse comitatus,
- possessory, post-obit, prayer, precedent,
- precept, predispose, pre-emption, prefer,
- preference, premeditation, premises,
- prescribe, prescription,
- presentment (chiefly U.S.),
- presents, presume, presumption,
- preterition (Roman law), prima facie,
- primogeniture, principal, private law,
- private nuisance,
- privilege, privileged,
- privity, privy, prize court, probable cause,
- probate, proceed, proceeding, process,
- process-server, procuration, procuratory,
- prohibition, promisee (Contract law),
- promisor (Contract law), proof,
- property centre,
- proponent,
- propositus, propound (English law), prosecute,
- prosecuting attorney (U.S.), prosecution,
- prosecutor,
- prothonotary or protonotary,
- prove,
- provocation (English criminal law),
- psychopathic disorder, public defender (U.S.),
- public law, public nuisance,
- public prosecutor, pupil (Civil law),
- pupillage,
- pursuant, purview,
- quarter sessions,
- queen's or king's evidence, question,
- question of fact (English law),
- question of law (English law), quitclaim,
- quo warranto, real, real property, rebutter,
- recaption, receivership, recital,
- recognizance or recognisance,
- recognizee or recognisee,
- recognizor or recognisor,
- recorder, recoup,
- recover, recovery,
- recrimination,
- re-examine, reference,
- refresher (English law), rejoin,
- rejoinder, relation,
- relator (English or U.S. law), release, relief,
- remand, remise, remission,
- remit, repetition (Civil law),
- replevin, replevy,
- replication, reply,
- report, reporter,
- representation (Contract law),
- reprieve, rescue, reservation,
- res gestae, residuary, residue,
- res ipsa loquitur,
- res judicata or res adjudicata,
- resolutive,
- respondent,
- rest,
- restitution,
- restrictive covenant,
- retain, retry,
- return, returnable,
- reverse, review,
- right of common, riot,
- rout, rule,
- ruling, run,
- salvo, saving,
- scandal, schedule,
- scienter, scire facias (rare), script,
- secularize or secularise,
- self-defence,
- self-executing, sentence, separation (Family law),
- sequester or sequestrate, sequestration,
- serjeant at law, serjeant,
- sergeant at law, or sergeant,
- servitude, session, settlement, settlor,
- severable, several,
- severance, sign,
- signatory,
- sine, sine prole, slander,
- smart money (U.S.), socage (English law),
- soke (English legal history),
- solatium (chiefly U.S.), sole,
- solemnity, solicitor, solution, sound,
- sound in, special case,
- special pleading, specialty,
- specific performance, spinster,
- spoliation, squat, stale,
- stand by (English law),
- stand down, statement,
- statement of claim,
- state's evidence (U.S.),
- statute law,
- statutory declaration,
- stillicide, stipulate (Roman law), stranger,
- stultify, submission, subpoena,
- subreption (rare), subrogate,
- subrogation, substantive, succeed, sue,
- sui juris, suit, suitor, summary,
- summary jurisdiction,
- summary offence,
- summation (U.S. law),
- summing-up,
- summons, suo jure, suo loco,
- surcharge, surety,
- surplusage, surrebuttal,
- surrebutter,
- surrejoinder, surrender,
- suspension,
- swear, swear in, swear out (U.S.), tales,
- tenancy, tenantry, tender, tenor, term,
- termor or termer, territorial court (U.S.),
- testament,
- testamentary, testate, testify,
- testimony, thing, third party,
- time immemorial,
- tipstaff, title, tort,
- tort-feasor, tortious,
- traffic court, transfer,
- transitory action, traverse,
- treasure-trove,
- trespass, triable, trial, trial court,
- tribunal, trover, try, udal,
- ultimogeniture, ultra vires, unalienable,
- unappealable, unavoidable, uncovenanted,
- unilateral, unincorporated,
- unlawful assembly, unreasonable behaviour,
- unwritten law, use, user, utter barrister,
- vacant, vacate, variance,
- vendee, vendor,
- venire facias, venireman (U.S.), venue,
- verdict, verification, verify, versus, vesture,
- vexatious, view, viewer, vindicate (Roman law),
- vindictive (English law), vitiate, voidable,
- voir dire, voluntary, voluntary arrangement,
- volunteer, voucher (English law, obsolete),
- wager of law (English legal history),
- waif (obsolete),
- waive, waiver, ward,
- ward of court, warrant,
- warranty (Contract or Insurance law), waste, will,
- witness, without prejudice, writ,
- writ of execution, wrong,
- year and a day (English law)
Layers of the earth's crust
- asthenosphere,
- basement,
- continental crust,
- lithosphere,
- lower mantle,
- Mohorovicíc discontinuity,
- oceanic crust,
- sima,
- sial,
- transition zone,
- upper mantle
Legendary/fictional/historical horses
- Bayard,
- Black Beauty,
- Black Bess,
- Boxer, Bucephalus,
- Champion,
- El Fideldo, Flicka,
- Hercules,
- Incitatus,
- Mister Ed, Pegasus,
- Rosinante, Silver,
- Sleipnir, Traveler,
- Trigger
Literature terms
- allegory,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- amphigory or amphigouri,
- Angry Young Men,
- anti-hero,
- antinovel,
- anti-roman,
- aphorism,
- archaism,
- Augustan,
- Bakhtinian,
- bathos,
- Beat Generation or Beats,
- belles-lettres,
- belletrist,
- bibliography,
- Bildungsroman,
- black comedy,
- Bloomsbury group,
- bodice-ripper,
- bombast,
- bowdlerization,
- Brechtian, bricolage,
- Byronic, carnivalesque,
- campus novel, causerie,
- Celtic Revival,
- cento,
- chiller,
- Ciceronian,
- classicism, coda,
- colloquialism,
- comedy,
- comedy of manners,
- commedia dell'arte, conceit,
- courtly love,
- cultural materialism,
- cut-up technique,
- cyberpunk, death of the author,
- decadence,
- deconstruction,
- denouement,
- Derridian, dialectic, dialogue,
- Dickensian,
- discourse,
- double entendre,
- drama, epic,
- epilogue, epistle,
- epistolary novel,
- epitaph, erasure, essay,
- exegesis,
- expressionism,
- fable,
- fabulist, faction,
- fantastique, fantasy,
- feminist theory,
- festschrift,
- figure of speech,
- fin de siècle,
- foreword,
- Foucauldian, Futurism,
- gloss,
- Gongorism,
- Gothic,
- hagiography,
- Hellenism, hermeneutics,
- historical novel,
- historicism,
- Homeric,
- Horatian,
- hudibrastic verse,
- imagery,
- interior monologue,
- intertextuality, invective,
- Jacobean, Janeite,
- Johnsonian, journalese,
- Joycean,
- Juvenalian, Kafkaesque,
- kailyard, kenning, kiddy lit,
- lampoon,
- Laurentian or Lawrentian, legend,
- literary criticism,
- littérateur,
- locus classicus,
- Lost Generation,
- magic realism or magical realism,
- marxist theory,
- maxim, melodrama, metafiction,
- metalanguage, metaphor,
- mock-heroic,
- modernism, motif, myth,
- mythopoeia, narrative,
- narratology,
- narrator, naturalism,
- new criticism,
- new historicism,
- nom de plume,
- nouveau roman, novel, novelette,
- novella, onomatopoeia,
- oxymoron,
- palindrome, paraphrase, parody,
- pastiche, pastoral, pathos,
- picaresque,
- plagiarism, plot, polemic,
- pornography, post-colonialism,
- postmodernism,
- post-structuralism,
- post-theory, pot-boiler,
- queer theory, realism,
- Restoration comedy,
- roman, roman à clef,
- Romanticism, saga,
- samizdat, satire, science fiction or SF,
- sentimental novel,
- shopping-and-fucking or S & F novel,
- short story,
- signifier and signified,
- simile, sketch,
- socialist realism,
- splatterpunk,
- Spoonerism, story,
- stream of consciousness,
- structuralism,
- Sturm und Drang,
- subplot,
- subtext,
- Surrealism,
- Swiftian,
- theme,
- theory, thesis,
- tragedy,
- tragicomedy,
- trope,
- verse,
- vignette
Medical and surgical instruments and equipment
- arthroscope,
- artificial heart, artificial kidney,
- aspirator, bandage, bedpan, bistoury,
- bronchoscope, cannula or canula,
- cardiograph, catheter, catling,
- clamp, clinical thermometer,
- colonoscope, colposcope,
- compressor, CT scanner or CAT scanner,
- curet or curette, cystoscope,
- defibrillator,
- depressor,
- dialysis machine, drain,
- electrocardiograph, electroencephalograph,
- electromyograph, encephalogram,
- endoscope, fetoscope,
- fibrescope or (U.S.) fiberscope,
- fluoroscope, forceps, gamma camera,
- gastroscope, gonioscope,
- haemostat or (U.S.) hemostat,
- heart-lung machine, heat lamp,
- hypodermic or hypodermic needle,
- hypodermic or hypodermic syringe,
- inhalator, inspirator, iron lung,
- kidney machine,
- kymograph or cymograph,
- lancet or lance,
- laparoscope, laryngoscope,
- life-support machine, microscope,
- nebulizer, needle, nephroscope,
- oesophagoscope or (U.S.) esophagoscope,
- ophthalmoscope, orthoscope, otoscope,
- oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pacemaker,
- packing, perimeter, pharyngoscope,
- plaster cast, pneumatometer,
- pneumograph, probe, proctoscope,
- Pulmotor (trademark),
- raspatory, respirator,
- resuscitator, retinoscope,
- retractor, rheometer,
- rhinoscope, roentgenoscope or röntgenoscope,
- scalpel, scanner,
- skiascope, sling, sound,
- specimen bottle, speculum,
- sphygmograph,
- sphygmomanometer,
- spirograph, spirometer,
- splint,
- stethoscope,
- stomach pump, stretcher,
- stupe, stylet,
- styptic pencil,
- suture, swab,
- syringe,
- thoracoscope,
- tourniquet, trepan,
- trephine, trocar,
- ultrasound scanner,
- urethroscope,
- urinometer,
- ventilator,
- wet pack,
- X-ray machine
Medical practitioners and specialists
- aetiologist or etiologist,
- anaesthetist, anatomist,
- andrologist, audiologist,
- bacteriologist,
- balneologist,
- barefoot doctor, cardiologist,
- chiropodist, consultant,
- dental hygienist or oral hygienist,
- dentist or dental surgeon,
- dermatologist,
- diagnostician, dietitian, district nurse,
- doctor, electrophysiologist,
- embryologist, endocrinologist,
- endodontist, epidemiologist, exodontist,
- extern or externe (U.S. & Canad.),
- forensic scientist,
- gastroenterologist,
- general practitioner or GP,
- geriatrician or geriatrist,
- gerontologist,
- gynaecologist or (U.S.) gynecologist,
- haematologist or (U.S.) hematologist,
- health visitor, house physician, houseman,
- hydrotherapist, immunologist,
- intern or interne (U.S. & Canad.), internist,
- junior doctor, laboratory technician,
- laryngologist, matron,
- midwife,
- myologist,
- neonatologist,
- nephrologist,
- neuroanatomist, neurologist,
- neuropathologist, neurophysiologist,
- neuropsychiatrist, neurosurgeon,
- nosologist, nurse, nursing officer,
- nutritionist,
- obstetrician,
- occupational therapist,
- odontologist, oncologist,
- ophthalmologist, optician,
- optometrist, orderly, orthodontist,
- orthopaedist or (U.S.) orthopedist, orthoptist,
- orthotist, osteologist, otolaryngologist, otologist,
- paediatrician or (U.S.) pediatrician, paramedic,
- pathologist,
- pharyngologist,
- physiotherapist or physio,
- plastic surgeon,
- proctologist, psychiatrist,
- psychoanalyst,
- psychologist,
- radiographer, radiologist,
- registrar, resident (U.S. & Canad.),
- rheumatologist,
- rhinologist, serologist,
- speech therapist,
- surgeon,
- syphilologist,
- therapist,
- toxicologist,
- trichologist,
- urologist,
- venereologist,
- veterinary surgeon,
- vet or (U.S.) veterinarian,
- virologist
Mathematical terms
- acute angle,
- addition,
- algorithm or algorism, angle, arc,
- area, average, axis, base, binary, binomial,
- cardinal number, Cartesian coordinates,
- chord, circle, circumference, closed set,
- coefficient,
- common denominator,
- common factor,
- complex number,
- concentric,
- cone, constant,
- coordinate or co-ordinate,
- cosecant, cosine,
- cotangent, cube,
- cube root, cuboid, curve, cusp, cylinder,
- decagon, decimal, denary,
- denominator,
- diagonal, diameter,
- digit, division,
- dodecahedron, ellipse,
- equals, equation,
- equilateral, even,
- exponential, factor, factorial, formula,
- fraction, frequency, function, graph,
- helix, hemisphere,
- heptagon, hexagon,
- hyperbola,
- hypotenuse, icosahedron,
- imaginary number,
- improper fraction, index, infinity,
- integer, integral, intersection,
- irrational number,
- isosceles, locus,
- logarithm or log,
- lowest common denominator,
- lowest common multiple,
- Mandelbrot set, matrix,
- mean, median, minus, mode,
- multiplication,
- natural logarithm,
- natural number,
- node, nonagon, number, numerator,
- oblong, obtuse angle, octagon, octahedron, odd,
- open set, operation, operator, ordinal number,
- origin, parabola, parallel,
- parallelogram,
- pentagon, percentage,
- perfect number,
- pi, plus, polygon, polyhedron, polynomial,
- power, prime number, prism, probability,
- product, proof, proper fraction,
- Pythagoras' theorem, quadrant,
- quadratic equation, quadrilateral,
- quotient, radian, radius, ratio,
- rational number, real number,
- reciprocal, rectangle,
- recurring decimal, reflex angle,
- remainder, rhombus, right angle,
- right-angled triangle, root,
- scalar, scalene, secant, sector,
- semicircle, set, significant figures,
- simultaneous equations, sine, slide rule,
- solid, sphere, square, square root,
- strange attractor, subset, subtraction,
- sum, surd, tangent,
- tetrahedron, torus,
- trapezium, triangle, union, universal set, value,
- variable, vector,
- Venn diagram, volume,
- vulgar fraction, x-axis,
- y-axis, z-axis, zero
METEOROLOGICAL TERMS
- anticyclone,
- cold front,
- cyclone,
- depression,
- front,
- heat-island,
- isallobar,
- isobar,
- lee wave,
- occluded front,
- ridge,
- scud,
- synoptic chart,
- thermal,
- trough,
- virga,
- warm front
- dropsonde,
- meteorograph,
- Meteorological Office or Met. Office,
- pilot balloon,
- radiosonde,
- weather ship,
- weather station,
- weatherman,
- weatherwoman
Minerals
- actinolite,
- agate,
- albite,
- allanite, allophane,
- alunite, amalgam,
- amblygonite, analcite or analcime,
- anatase, andalusite, andesine,
- anglesite, anhydrite, ankerite,
- annabergite,
- anorthite, apatite, apophyllite,
- aragonite, argentite,
- arsenopyrite, augite, autunite, axinite,
- azurite, baddeleyite, barytes,
- bastnaesite or bastnasite,
- bauxite, beryl,
- biotite,
- bismuthinite or bismuth glance,
- Boehmite, boracite, borax, bornite,
- braunite, brookite,
- calaverite, calcite,
- carnallite, carnotite, cassiterite,
- celestite or celestine,
- cerargyrite, chabazite,
- chalcanthite, chalcocite,
- chalcopyrite,
- chlorite, chromite, chrysoberyl,
- chrysotile, cinnabar,
- clay mineral,
- cleveite, clinopyroxene,
- cobaltite or cobaltine,
- colemanite, columbite,
- cordierite, corundum,
- cristobalite, crocidolite,
- crocoite or crocoisite,
- cryolite, cuprite, cyanite,
- datolite, diallage,
- diamond, diaspore,
- diopside, dioptase,
- dolomite, dumortierite,
- emery, enstatite,
- epidote, erythrite,
- euxenite, fayalite,
- feldspar or felspar,
- feldspathoid, fluorapatite,
- fluorspar,
- fluor or (U.S. & Canad.) fluorite,
- forsterite, franklinite, gahnite,
- galena or galenite,
- garnet, garnierite,
- gehlenite, germanite,
- geyserite,
- gibbsite, glauconite,
- goethite or göthite, graphite,
- greenockite, gummite,
- gypsum, halite, harmotome,
- hematite or haematite,
- hemimorphite, hessite,
- heulandite,
- hiddenite, hornblende,
- hyacinth, hypersthene,
- illite, ilmenite, jadeite,
- jarosite, jasper, kainite,
- kaolinite, kernite,
- kieserite, kunzite, labradorite,
- lapis lazuli, lazulite,
- lazurite, leucite, limonite,
- magnesite, magnetite,
- malachite, manganite,
- marcasite, margarite,
- massicot, meerschaum,
- metamict, mica,
- microcline, millerite,
- mimetite,
- molybdenite, monazite,
- montmorillonite,
- monzonite, mullite,
- muscovite, natrolite,
- nepheline or nephelite,
- nephrite, niccolite, norite,
- oligoclase, olivenite, olivine,
- opal, orpiment, orthoclase,
- ozocerite or ozokerite,
- pentlandite, periclase,
- perovskite, petuntse or petuntze,
- phenacite or phenakite,
- phosgenite, phosphorite,
- piedmontite, pinite,
- pitchblende, pollucite,
- polybasite, proustite,
- psilomelane, pyrargyrite, pyrite,
- pyrolusite, pyromorphite,
- pyrophyllite,
- pyroxene, pyroxenite,
- pyrrhotite or pyrrhotine, quartz,
- realgar, rhodochrosite, rhodonite,
- rutile, samarskite,
- saponite, sapphirine,
- scapolite, scheelite,
- scolecite, senarmontite,
- serpentine, siderite,
- sillimanite, smaltite,
- smaragdite, smectite,
- smithsonite,
- sodalite, sperrylite,
- sphalerite, sphene,
- spinel, spodumene,
- stannite, staurolite,
- stibnite, stilbite,
- strontianite, sylvanite,
- sylvite or sylvine,
- talc, tantalite, tenorite,
- tetradymite,
- tetrahedrite, thenardite,
- thorianite,
- thorite, tiemannite,
- topaz, torbernite, tourmaline,
- tremolite,
- triphylite, trona, troostite,
- tungstite, turgite, turquoise,
- uralite, uraninite, uranite,
- vanadinite, variscite,
- vermiculite, vesuvianite,
- wavellite, willemite,
- witherite, wolframite,
- wollastonite,
- wulfenite, zaratite,
- zeolite, zincite,
- zinkenite or zinckenite,
- zircon, zoisite
Musical instruments
- accordion,
- aeolian harp,
- alphorn or alpenhorn,
- althorn,
- Autoharp (trademark),
- baby grand,
- Bach trumpet,
- bagpipes,
- balalaika,
- bandore,
- banjo,
- barrel organ,
- baryton,
- bass drum,
- basset horn,
- bass guitar,
- bassoon,
- bass viol, bell,
- bodhrán,
- Böhm flute,
- bombardon,
- bongo,
- boudoir grand,
- bouzouki,
- bugle,
- calliope,
- carillon,
- castanets,
- celesta or celeste,
- cello or violoncello,
- cembalo,
- chamber organ,
- Chapman stick (trademark), chime,
- Chinese block,
- chitarrone,
- cimbalon or cymbalon,
- cithara or kithara, cittern,
- cither or cithern,
- clarinet,
- clarion,
- clarsach, clave,
- clavicembalo,
- clavichord,
- clavier,
- concert grand,
- concertina,
- conga,
- contrabass,
- contrabassoon,
- cor anglais,
- cornet, cornett,
- cottage piano,
- cowbell,
- crumhorn or krummhorn,
- crwth,
- cymbal,
- cymbalo,
- didgeridoo, Dobro (trademark),
- double bass,
- double bassoon, drum,
- drum machine,
- dulcimer,
- electric guitar,
- electronic organ,
- English horn,
- euphonium,
- fiddle,
- fife,
- flageolet,
- flugelhorn,
- flute,
- French horn,
- gittarone,
- gittern,
- glass harmonica,
- glockenspiel,
- gong,
- gran cassa,
- grand piano, guitar,
- Hammond organ (trademark),
- handbell,
- harmonica,
- harmonium,
- harp,
- harpsichord,
- Hawaiian guitar,
- helicon,
- horn, hornpipe,
- hunting horn,
- hurdy-gurdy,
- idiophone, jew's-harp,
- kazoo,
- kettledrum,
- keyboard, kit,
- kora, koto, lur or lure,
- lute, lyra viol, lyre,
- mandola,
- mandolin or mandoline,
- maraca, marimba, mbira,
- mellophone,
- melodeon or melodion,
- metallophone,
- Moog (trademark),
- mouth organ,
- musette, naker,
- ngoma, nickelodeon,
- nose flute, oboe, oboe da caccia,
- oboe d'amore,
- ocarina, octachord,
- ondes Martenot,
- ophicleide,
- orchestrina or orchestrion,
- organ, orpharion,
- oud, panpipes,
- pedal steel guitar,
- penny whistle, piano,
- Pianola (trademark),
- piccolo, pipe,
- player piano,
- portative organ,
- racket,
- rebec or rebeck,
- recorder,
- reco-reco,
- reed organ, reed pipe,
- regal, rote, sackbut,
- samisen,
- sarangi, sarod,
- sarrusophone, saxhorn,
- saxophone, shawm,
- side drum,
- sistrum,
- sitar,
- slide guitar,
- snare drum,
- sousaphone,
- Spanish guitar,
- spinet,
- square piano,
- steam organ,
- steel guitar,
- stylophone,
- synthesizer,
- syrinx, tabla,
- tabor or tabour, tambour,
- tamboura, tambourine,
- tam-tam,
- theorbo,
- Theremin (trademark),
- timbal or tymbal,
- timpani or tympani,
- tom-tom,
- triangle, trigon,
- trombone,
- trumpet, tuba,
- tubular bells,
- uillean pipes,
- ukulele or ukelele,
- upright piano,
- vibraphone,
- vihuela,
- vina,
- viol, viola,
- viola da braccio,
- viola da gamba,
- viola d'amore,
- violin, violone,
- virginal, vocoder,
- washboard,
- Welsh harp, whip,
- whistle,
- wood block,
- Wurlitzer (trademark),
- xylophone,
- xylorimba,
- zither
Nuts
- almond,
- beech nut,
- brazil nut,
- butternut,
- cashew,
- chestnut,
- chinquapin,
- chincapin, or chinkapin,
- coco de mer,
- dwarf chestnut,
- earthnut or pignut,
- hazelnut,
- filbert,
- cobnut, or cob,
- macadamia or Queensland nut,
- marron,
- peanut,
- monkey nut, or groundnut,
- pecan,
- pine nut or pine kernel,
- pistachio,
- quandong,
- walnut
Oils
Edible oils
- benne,
- gingili, or sesame,
- butyrin, corn,
- cottonseed, fixed,
- maize, nut,
- oleo,
- olive,
- palm, peanut,
- peppermint,
- soya,
- sunflower seed,
- vegetable
Industrial oils
- benzaldehyde,
- banana or pentyl acetate,
- bone, crude,
- Chinese wood or tung,
- coal,
colza,
- diesel, drying, fuel, fusel,
- glutaraldehyde, gas, heavy,
- linseed,
- mineral, neat's foot,
- paraffin,
- parathion,
- rapeseed,
- rosin,
- shale,
- sperm, stand,
- train,
- turpentine,
- whale oil
- attar,
- bergamot,
- cajuput,
- camphorated,
- croton, castor,
- chaulmoogra,
- citronella,
- clove,
- coconut,
- cod-liver,
- eucalyptus,
- evening primrose,
- jojoba,
- lavender,
- Macassar, musk,
- mustard, neroli,
- palm, patchouli,
- peanut, rapeseed,
- sandalwood,
- sassafras,
- savin,
- tea tree,
- wintergreen,
- ylang-ylang
Orange
- amber,
- burnt sienna,
- gold,
- grenadine,
- ochre,
- peach,
- tangerine,
- terracotta
People with supernatural powers
- archimage,
- channeller,
- clairaudient,
- clairvoyant, conjurer,
- diviner, dowser,
- enchanter, enchantress,
- exorcist, fortune-teller,
- hag, hex, mage,
magician,
- magus, medium,
- necromancer,
- rainmaker, seer, shaman, siren,
- sorcerer, sorceress,
- spaewife (Scot.), superhero,
- thaumaturge,
- warlock,
- water diviner,
- water witch,
- white witch, witch,
- witch doctor,
- witch
master,
- wizard
Physics terms
- acceleration,
- alternating current,
- ampere,
- amplifier,
- angstrom,
- anion,
- antimatter,
- atom,
- baryon,
- becquerel,
- Boyle's law,
- Brownian motion,
- cacion,
- calorie,
- capacitance,
- cathode ray,
- centre of gravity,
- centrifugal force,
- centripetal force, charge,
- Charles' law,
- conductor, convection,
- cosmic ray,
- coulomb, current,
- cyclotron, decibel,
- density, diffraction,
- diffusion, diode,
- direct current,
- Doppler effect,
- earth,
- electricity,
- electromotive force,
- electron,
- energy,
- farad, field,
- fission, fluorescence,
- force, frequency,
- friction, fuse, fusion,
- gamma ray, generator,
- gravity, half-life,
- hertz, hyperon, impetus,
- inductance, inertia,
- infrared, joule,
- kelvin,
- kinetic energy,
- laser, lens, lepton,
- luminescence, mass,
- matter,
- meson, microwave, moment,
- momentum, muon, neutrino, neutron,
- newton, nucleon, nucleus, ohm,
- Ohm's law,
- particle,
- pascal,
- Planck constant or Planck's constant,
- potential difference,
- potential energy,
- proton,
- quantum,
- radiation,
- radioactivity,
- radio wave,
- red shift,
- reflection,
- refraction,
- relativity,
- resistance,
- rutherford,
- semiconductor,
- simple harmonic motion,
- spectrum, static electricity,
- subatomic particle,
- superconductivity,
- superfluidity,
- surface tension,
- tau particle,
- tension,
- terminal velocity,
- thermostat, transformer,
- transistor, ultraviolet,
- vacuum, velocity,
- viscosity, volt,
- watt, wave,
- wavelength, x-ray
Places of entertainment
- amphitheatre,
- amusement arcade (Brit.),
- arena,
- auditorium,
- ballroom,
- bandstand,
- big top,
- bingo hall, carnival,
- cinema, circus,
- coliseum or colosseum,
- concert hall,
- dance hall, disco,
- fairground, funfair,
- gallery, hall,
- leisure centre, lido,
- marquee,
- museum,
- music hall,
- nightclub,
- nightspot,
- niterie (slang),
- opera house,
- social club,
- stadium, theatre,
- vaudeville,
- waxworks, zoo
Programming languages
- Ada,
- Algol,
- BASIC or Basic,
- C, C++,
- C#,
- COBOL or Cobol,
- FORTH or Forth,
- FORTRAN or Fortran,
- Haskell,
- Java,
- LISP,
- LOGO,
- Pascal,
- Perl, PL/1,
- Postscript,
- PROLOG or Prolog,
- RPG,
- Simula,
- Smalltalk,
- SNOBOL,
- SQL
Property law terms
- abatement,
- abstract of title, abuttals,
- abutter, accession, ademption,
- administration, administrator,
- advancement, adverse,
- amortize or amortise, appoint,
- appointee, appointment, appointor,
- appurtenance, betterment,
- chattel, chattel personal, chattel real,
- convey or assure, deforce, demesne,
- demise, descent, devisee, devisor,
- dilapidation, disentail, disseise, divest,
- dominant tenement,
- dominium or (rare) dominion,
- easement, ejectment,
- enfeoff, entail, entry,
- equity of redemption, estate, fee,
- fee simple, fee tail,
- fixture, freehold,
- freeholder,
- heir apparent,
- heir-at-law,
- heirdom, heirloom,
- heriditament, hotchpot,
- intrusion, messuage,
- mortgagor or mortgager,
- oust, ouster, particular, partition, party wall,
- perpetuity,
- power of appointment, reconvert,
- remainder,
- remainderman, remitter, result,
- reversion, reversioner, revert, riparian,
- seisin or (U.S.) seizin,
- servient tenement,
- severalty, survivor, tail,
- tenure, transferee,
- transferor or transferrer,
- unity of interest, vested,
- vested interest, warranty
Proteins
- actin,
- actomyosin,
- aleurone,
- alpha-fetoprotein,
- amyloid,
- apoprotein,
- avidin,
- calmodulin,
- caseinogen,
- conchiolin,
- dystrophin,
- factor VIII,
- ferritin,
- fibrin,
- fibrinogen,
- fibroin,
- flagellin,
- gliadin,
- globin, gluten,
- hordein, keratin,
- lactalbumin,
- lactoprotein, lectin,
- legumin, leptin,
- lymphokine,
- myosin,
- opsin,
- ossein,
- prion,
- properdin, ricin,
- sclerotin,
- sericin,
- spongin,
- thrombogen,
- vitellin, zein
Psychology terms
- alter
ego,
- anal,
- analysis,
- angst,
- anxiety,
- complex,
- compulsion,
- conditioning,
- consciousness,
- death wish,
- delusion,
- dementia,
- depression,
- Electra
complex,
- ego, extrovert,
- fixation,
- Freudian slip,
- Gestalt therapy,
- group
therapy,
- hypnosis,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria, id,
- inferiority complex,
- introvert, mania,
- mind,
- neurosis,
- obsession,
- Oedipus complex,
- paranoia,
persecution complex,
- persona, personality,
- personality disorder,
- phobia,
- primal therapy or primal scream therapy,
- psyche, psychoanalysis,
- psychosis,
- psychosomatic,
- regression,
- repression,
- Rorschach test or
inkblot test,
- schizophrenia,
- self, stress,
- subconscious,
- sublimation,
- superego,
- syndrome,
- trauma,
- unconscious
Purple
- amethyst,
- aubergine,
- burgundy,
- carmine,
- claret,
- dubonnet,
- gentian,
- gentian blue,
- heather,
- heliotrope,
- indigo,
- lavender,
- lilac,
- magenta,
- mauve,
- mulberry,
- pansy,
- peach-blow,
- periwinkle,
- plum, puce,
- royal purple,
- Tyrian purple,
- violet,
- wine
RABBITS & HARES
- Angora rabbit,
- arctic hare,
- Belgian hare,
- coney or cony,
- hare,
- jack rabbit,
- pika or cony,
- rabbit or cottontail,
- snowshoe hare or snowshoe rabbit
- auburn,
- baby pink,
- bay,
- burgundy,
- burnt sienna,
- cardinal red,
- carmine,
- carnation,
- carroty,
- cerise,
- cherry,
- chestnut,
- cinnabar,
- claret,
- copper or coppery,
- coral,
- crimson,
- cyclamen,
- damask,
- dubonnet,
- flame,
- flesh,
- foxy,
- fuchsia,
- ginger,
- grenadine,
- gules (Heraldry),
- henna,
- liver,
- magenta,
- maroon,
- mulberry,
- old rose,
- oxblood,
- oyster pink,
- peach,
- peach-blow,
- pink,
- plum,
- poppy,
- puce,
- raspberry,
- rose,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- ruby,
- russet,
- rust,
- salmon pink,
- sandy,
- scarlet,
- shell pink,
- strawberry,
- tea rose,
- terracotta,
- Titian,
- Turkey red,
- vermeil,
- vermilion,
- wine
Religious festivals
- Advent,
- Al Hijrah,
- Ascension Day,
- Ash Wednesday,
- Baisakhi,
- Bodhi Day,
- Candlemas,
- Chanukahor Hanukkah,
- Ching Ming, Christmas,
- Corpus Christi,
- Day of Atonement,
- Dhammacakka,
- Diwali,
- Dragon Boat Festival,
- Dussehra,
- Easter,
- Eid ul-Adhaor Id-ul-Adha,
- Eid ul-Fitror Id-ul-Fitr,
- Epiphany,
- Feast of Tabernacles,
- Good Friday,
- Guru Nanak's Birthday,
- Hirja,
- Hola Mohalla,
- Holi,
- Janamashtami,
- Lailat ul-Barah,
- Lailat ul-Isra Wal Mi'raj,
- Lailat ul-Qadr,
- Lent,
- Mahashivaratri,
- Maundy Thursday,
- Michaelmas,
- Moon Festival,
- Palm Sunday,
- Passion Sunday,
- Passover,
- Pentecost,
- Pesach,
- Purim,
- Quadragesima,
- Quinquagesima,
- Raksha Bandhan,
- Ramadan,
- Rama Naumi,
- Rogation,
- Rosh Hashanah,
- Septuagesima,
- Sexagesima,
- Shavuot,
- Shrove Tuesday,
- Sukkothor Succoth,
- Trinity,
- Wesak,
- Whitsun,
- Winter Festival,
- Yom Kippur,
- Yuan Tan
Rice and other Cereals
- arborio
rice,
- basmati rice,
- bran,
- brown rice,
- bulgur wheat,
- corn,
- couscous,
- Indian rice or wild rice,
- long grain rice,
- maize,
- millet,
- oatmeal,
- oats,
- Patna rice,
- ragi,
- sago,
- short grain rice,
- tapioca,
- wheat,
- wild rice
rock
- andesite,
- anorthosite,
- anthracite, arkose,
- basalt,
- breccia, chalk,
- chert, clay,
coal,
- conglomerate,
- diorite,
- dolerite,
- dolomite,
- dunite, eclogite,
- felsite or felstone, flint,
- gabbro, gneiss, granite,
- granodiorite,
gravel,
- greywacke or (U.S.) graywacke,
- grit, hornblendite,
- hornfels,
- lamprophyre, lava,
- lignite,
- limestone, loess,
- marble,
- monzonite,
- mudstone,
- obsidian,
- pegmatite,
- peridotite,
- perknite,
- phyllite,
- pitchstone, pumice,
- pyroxenite,
- quartzite, rhyolite,
- sandstone,
- schist,
shale,
- skarn, slate,
- soapstone,
- syenite,
- trachyte
Rodents
- acouchi or acouchy,
- agouti, beaver,
- black rat,
- brown rat or Norway rat,
- cane rat, capybara,
- cavy, chinchilla,
- chipmunk,
- coypu or nutria,
- deer mouse, desert rat,
- dormouse, fieldmouse,
- flying squirrel,
- fox squirrel,
- gerbil, gerbille, or jerbil,
- gopher or pocket gopher, gopher or ground squirrel,
- grey squirrel,
- groundhog or woodchuck,
- ground squirrel or gopher,
- guinea pig or cavy,
- hamster, harvest mouse, hedgehog,
- house mouse, jerboa,
- jumping mouse, kangaroo rat,
- lemming, Maori rat, mara,
- marmot, mole rat, mouse,
- muskrat or musquash,
- paca, pack rat,
- pocket mouse,
- porcupine,
- rat,
- red squirrel or chickaree,
- springhaas, squirrel,
- suslik or souslik,
- taguan, tucotuco,
- viscacha or vizcacha,
- vole, water rat,
- water vole or water rat,
- white-footed mouse,
- white rat
Sauces
- apple,
- à la king,
- barbecue,
- Béarnaise,
- béchamel,
- black bean,
- bolognese or bolognaise,
- Bordelaise,
- brandy butter or hard sauce,
- bread, brown,
- chasseur,
- chaudfroid,
- cheese,
- chilli,
- chocolate,
- chow-chow,
- coulis,
- cranberry,
- cream, creole,
- cumberland,
- curry, custard,
- French dressing,
- fudge,
- gravy,
- hoisin,
- hollandaise,
- horseradish,
- ketchup,
- mayonnaise,
- Melba sauce, mint,
- mornay,
- mousseline,
- nam pla or fish sauce,
- orange,
- oyster, pesto,
- piccalilli,
- red pesto,
- rémoulade,
- Russian dressing,
- sabayon,
- salad cream,
- salad dressing,
- salsa,
- salsa verde, soubise,
- soy sauce,
- shoyu, or tamari,
- suprême,
- sweet-and-sour,
- Tabasco (trademark),
- tartare, tomato,
- velouté, verjuice sauce,
- vinaigrette,
- white, wine,
- Worcester or Worcestershire
Sea mammals
- dugong,
- eared seal,
- earless seal,
- elephant seal,
- harp seal,
- hooded seal,
- manatee,
- sea cow, seal,
- sea lion,
- walrus or (archaic) sea horse
Seas
- Adriatic,
- Aegean,
- Amundsen,
- Andaman,
- Arabian,
- Arafura,
- Aral,
- Azov,
- Baltic,
- Banda,
- Barents,
- Beaufort,
- Bellingshausen,
- Bering,
- Bismarck,
- Black or Euxine,
- Caribbean,
- Caspian,
- Celebes, Ceram,
- China,
- Chukchi,
- Coral,
- East China,
- East Siberian,
- Flores,
- Icarian,
- Inland, Ionian,
- Irish, Japan,
- Java, Kara,
- Laptev,
- Ligurian,
- Lincoln,
- Marmara or Marmora,
- Mediterranean,
- Nordenskjöld, North,
- Norwegian,
- Okhotsk,
- Philippine,
- Red,
- Ross,
- Sargasso,
- Scotia,
- Solomon,
- South China,
- Sulu,
- Tasman,
- Timor,
- Tyrrhenian,
- Weddell,
- White,
- Yellow or Hwang Hai
- clam,
- clappy-doo or clabby-doo (Scot.),
- cockle,
- crab,
- crayfish or crawfish,
- Dublin Bay prawn,
- freshwater shrimp,
- king prawn,
- langoustine,
- lobster,
- Moreton Bay bug,
- mussel,
- Norway lobster,
- oyster,
- prawn,
- scallop or scollop
Shoes and Boots
- ankle boot, arctic (U.S.),
- Balmoral, biker boot,
- blucher (obsolete),
- bootee, bottine,
- bovver boot (Brit. slang),
- brogan,
- brogue,
- brothel creeper (informal),
- buskin,
- chopine or chopin,
- chukka boot,
- clog, co-respondent,
- cothurnus or cothurn,
- court shoe (cowboy boot),
- creeper (informal),
- crowboot,
- deck shoe,
- Doc Marten (trademark),
- espadrille,
- field boot, flat or flatty,
- flip-flop (football boot),
- gaiter or spat,
- galosh,
- ghillie (Scot.) (golf shoe),
- gumboot,
- gumshoe,
- gym shoe, half boot,
- Hessian boot,
- high heel,
- hobnail boot,
- jackboot,
- Jandal (N.Z., trademark) (kitten heel), lace-up,
- larrigan, loafer,
- moccasin,
- moonboot,
- mukluk, mule,
- overshoe,
- Oxford, pantofle,
- pantoffle, or pantoufle (archaic),
- platform,
- plimsoll or plimsole, pump,
- racket or racquet,
- running shoe,
- rock boot, sabot, sandal,
- sandshoe, scuff,
- slingback, slip-on,
- slipper, sneaker,
- snowshoe,
- spike, stiletto, surgical boot,
- tennis shoe (thigh boot), top boot,
- track shoe,
- training shoe or trainer,
- veldskoen,
- wader,
- wedge or wedge heel,
- welly,
- Wellington boot,
- winkle-picker
Shrews and other insectivores
- desman,
- elephant shrew,
- mole,
- moon rat,
- shrew or shrewmouse,
- shrew mole,
- solenodon,
- star-nosed mole,
- tenrec,
- tree shrew,
- water shrew
Shrubs
- acacia,
- acanthus, arbutus, bilberry,
- blackcurrant,
- blackthorn,
- blueberry,
- bramble,
- briar or brier,
- broom,
- buckthorn,
- buddleia,
- camellia,
- caper,
- clematis,
- coca, cotton,
- cranberry,
- crown-of-thorns,
- daphne,
- dogwood,
- forsythia,
- frangipani,
- fuchsia,
- gardenia,
- gooseberry,
- gorse,
- hawthorn,
- heath, heather,
- honeysuckle,
- hydrangea, jasmine,
- juniper,
- laburnum,
- laurel, lilac,
- liquorice, magnolia,
- mistletoe,
- mock orange, myrtle,
- oleander, poinsettia,
- poison ivy,
- poison oak,
- potentilla, privet,
- pyracantha,
- raspberry,
- redcurrant,
- rhododendron, rose,
- rosemary, rue, strawberry, tea, thyme
Shirts
- banyan,
- blouse,
- boiled shirt,
- bush shirt,
- camise,
- chemise,
- cover-shoulder,
- dashiki,
- dress shirt,
- garibaldi,
- grandad shirt,
- guimpe,
- Jacky Howe (Austral. informal),
- hair shirt,
- kerbaya,
- kurta or khurta,
- lava-lava,
- middy blouse,
- overblouse,
- polo shirt, sark (Scot.), skivvy,
- sports shirt,
- Swanndri (trademark N.Z.),
- T-shirt or tee shirt
Skirts
- A-line,
- button-through,
- crinoline,
- dirndl,
- divided skirt,
- drop-waisted,
- filibeg, fillibeg, or philibeg,
- full skirt,
- fustanella or fustanelle,
- gaberdine or gabardine,
- grass skirt,
- half-slip or waist-slip,
- hobble skirt,
- hoop skirt,
- kilt, lava-lava,
- maxiskirt,
- microskirt,
- midiskirt,
- miniskirt,
- overskirt,
- pencil skirt,
- petticoat,
- puffball skirt,
- ra-ra skirt, riding skirt,
- sarong, tutu,
- underskirt,
- wrapover or wrapround
- alcohol-free or non-alcoholic beer,
- apple juice,
- barley water,
- bitter lemon,
- Bovril (trademark),
- buttermilk,
- cassis,
- Coca-Cola or Coke (trademark),
- cocoa,
- coffee,
- cola,
- cordial,
- cream soda,
- crush,
- dandelion and burdock,
- fruit juice,
- fruit tea,
- ginger ale,
- ginger beer,
- grapefruit juice,
- herb tea or herbal infusion,
- hot chocolate,
- ice-cream soda,
- iron brew,
- juice,
- kumiss,
- koumiss,
- koumis, or koumyss,
- lassi,
- lemonade,
- lemon squash,
- lemon tea or Russian tea,
- limeade,
- lime cordial,
- lolly water (Austral. & N.Z.),
- Lucozade (trademark),
- maté or mate,
- milk,
- milk shake,
- mineral water,
- nectar,
- orangeade,
- orange juice,
- orgeat,
- peppermint cordial,
- Perrier or Perrier water (trademark),
- prairie oyster,
- Ribena (trademark),
- root beer,
- sarsaparilla,
- Seltzer or Seltzer water,
- sherbet,
- smoothie,
- soapolallie,
- soda,
- soda water,
- spremuta,
- squash,
- sweet cider (U.S. & Canad.),
- tea,
- tisane,
- Tizer (trademark),
- tomato juice, tonic,
- vichy water,
- Vimto (trademark),
- water
Sugars
Edible sugars
Edible sugars
- beet sugar,
- brown sugar,
- cane sugar,
- caster sugar,
- crystallized sugar,
- demerara sugar,
- granulated sugar,
- icing sugar,
- jaggery,
- maple sugar,
- muscovado sugar,
- palm sugar,
- powdered sugar,
- panocha,
- refined sugar,
- white sugar
- aldose,
- arabinose,
- deoxyribose,
- dextrose or grape sugar,
- fructose or laevulose,
- galactose,
- glucose,
- invert sugar,
- lactose or milk sugar,
- maltose,
- mannose,
- raffinose,
- rhamnose,
- ribose,
- sorbose,
- trehalose,
- triose,
- xylose or wood sugar
Supernatural creatures
- angel,
banshee,
- brownie,
- demon, devil,
- dwarf,
- dybbuk,
- elf, fairy,
- fairy godmother,
- familiar, fay,
- genie, ghost,
- ghoul, giant,
- gnome, goblin,
- god
or goddess,
- golem,
- gremlin,
- guardian angel,
- hobgoblin,
- imp,
- incubus,
- jinni, jinnee, djinni, or djinny,
- kachina,
- kelpie,
- lamia,
- leprechaun,
- little people or folk,
- monster,
- ogre,
- peri,
- phantom,
- pixie,
- poltergeist,
- sandman,
- selkie or silkie (Scot.),
- spectre,
- sprite,
- succubus,
- sylph,
troll,
- vampire,
- werewolf or lycanthrope,
- wraith,
- zombie or zombi
Supernatural terms
- abracadabra,
- amulet, apport,
- aura,
- black magic or the Black Art, charm,
- clairaudience, clairvoyance,
- cryptaesthesia, curse, divination,
ectoplasm,
- evil eye, exorcism,
- extrasensory perception or ESP, fate,
- fetish, grigri, gris-gris, or greegree,
- grimoire, hex, hoodoo,
- incantation,
- invultuation,
- Indian sign,
- jinx, juju,
- kismet,
- levitation,
magic circle, magic spell,
- magic wand, mojo,
- necromancy,
- obi or obeah,
Ouija (trademark),
- parapsychology,
- pentagram,
- philtre,
- portent,
- possession,
- premonition,
- reincarnation,
- rune,
- seance or séance,
- second sight,
- sigil,
- sixth sense,
- spell, talisman,
- talking in tongues,
- xenoglossia, or xenoglossy,
- telaesthesia,
- telegnosis,
- telekinesis or
psychokinesis,
- telepathy,
- voodoo,
- wand, white magic,
- witching hour
- bar,
- bedside table,
- billiard table,
- breakfast bar,
- breakfast table,
- buffet,
- bureau,
- card table,
- carrel,
- coffee table,
- console table,
- counter,
- davenport (Brit.),
- desk,
- dining table,
- dressing table,
- drop-leaf table,
- drum table,
- escritoire,
- folding table,
- gate-leg or gate-legged table,
- kitchen table,
- lapboard,
- lowboy (U.S. & Canada),
- nest of tables,
- occasional table,
- pedestal desk,
- Pembroke table,
- piecrust table,
- reading desk,
- refectory table,
- roll-top desk,
- secretaire,
- side table,
- snooker table,
- teapoy,
- tea table,
- tea trolley,
- traymobile (Austral.),
- trestle table,
- wool table,
- workbench,
- worktable,
- writing desk,
- writing table
TEA
- Assam,
- bohea,
- camomile tea,
- Ceylon,
- Chinese tea,
- congou or congo,
- Darjeeling,
- Earl Grey,
- green tea,
- gunpowder tea,
- herb or herbal tea,
- Indian tea,
- jasmine tea,
- Lapsang Souchong,
- lemon tea,
- mint tea,
- oolong,
- orange pekoe,
- post-and-rail tea (archaic),
- Russian tea.
Tools
- Allen
key, alligator,
- auger, awl, axe,
- ball-peen hammer,
- beetle,
- billhook,
bit,
- bitstock,
- bodkin,
- bolster,
- borer, bosh,
- brace and bit,
- broach,
broad,
- burin,
- bushhammer,
- centre punch,
- chaser, chisel,
- claw hammer,
- clink,
- clippers,
- cold chisel,
- comb, comber,
- countersink, cradle,
- croze,
- diamond point,
- dibble,
- drawknife or drawshave,
- dresser,
- drift or
driftpin,
- drill, drill press,
- drove or drove chisel,
- edge tool,
- eyeleteer, facer, file,
- fillet, firmer chisel,
- flange,
- flatter, float,
- floatcut file,
- fork, former,
- fraise, froe or frow,
- fuller, gab, gad,
- gavel, gimlet,
- gouger, graver,
- gympie (Austral.), hack,
- hack hammer,
- half-round chisel, hammer,
- hammer drill, hob,
- hoe, hone, icebreaker,
- ice
pick,
- jackhammer,
- jointer, jumper, kevel,
- knapping hammer,
- mallet,
- mattock, maul,
- mitre square,
- monkey wrench,
- nibbler, nippers,
- padsaw,
- percussion tool,
- pestle, pick,
- piledriver,
- pitching tool, plane,
- pliers,
- ploughstaff,
- pneumatic hammer,
- power drill,
- pruning hook, punch,
- rabble
or rabbler, rake,
- rawhide hammer, ripple,
- rocker, rounder,
- router,
- sander, saw, sax,
- scorper or scauper,
- screwdriver,
- screw tap, scriber,
- scutch or scutcher,
- scythe, shave,
- shears, sickle,
- slasher (Austral.
& N.Z.),
- sledgehammer, snake, slick,
- soldering iron, spade,
- spanner,
spider,
- spitsticker,
- spud or spudder,
- stiletto, stylus,
- swage,
- tack
hammer,
- tilt hammer,
- triphammer,
- trepan, trowel,
- wimble, wrench
- acacia,
- akee,
- alder,
- almond,
- aloe,
- apple,
- apricot,
- ash,
- aspen,
- balsa,
- banana,
- banyan,
- baobab,
- bay,
- beech,
- birch,
- bonsai,
- box,
- brazil,
- bunya,
- butternut,
- cacao,
- carob,
- cashew,
- cassia,
- cedar,
- cedar of Lebanon,
- cherry,
- chestnut,
- cinnamon,
- citrus,
- coco,
- coconut,
- coolabah,
- cork oak,
- cypress,
- date palm,
- deal,
- dogwood,
- Douglas fir,
- ebony,
- elder,
- elm,
- eucalyptus or eucalypt,
- fig,
- fir,
- grapefruit,
- ground ash,
- ground oak,
- guava,
- gum,
- gympie,
- hawthorn,
- hazel,
- hemlock,
- hickory,
- holly,
- hornbeam,
- horse chestnut,
- ilex,
- ironwood,
- jacaranda,
- Judas tree,
- juniper,
- karri,
- kauri,
- laburnum,
- larch,
- laurel,
- lemon,
- lilac,
- lime,
- lind,
- linden,
- lotus,
- macrocarpa,
- magnolia,
- mahogany,
- mango,
- mangrove, maple,
- melaleuca,
- mimosa,
- monkey puzzle or Chile pine,
- mountain ash,
- mulberry,
- nutmeg,
- oak,
- olive,
- orange,
- osier,
- palm,
- papaya,
- paperbark,
- pawpaw or papaw,
- peach,
- pear,
- persimmon,
- pine,
- plane,
- plum,
- pomegranate,
- poplar,
- pussy willow,
- quince,
- raffia,
- redwood,
- rosewood,
- rowan,
- sandalwood,
- sassafras,
- Scots fir,
- Scots pine,
- sequoia,
- silver birch,
- spruce,
- stringy-bark,
- sycamore,
- tamarind,
- teak,
- walnut,
- weeping willow,
- white ash,
- whitebeam,
- willow,
- witch,
- witch elm,
- yew,
- ylang-ylang,
- yucca
Underwear
- Balmoral,
basque,
- bloomers, body,
- body stocking,
- boxer shorts or boxers,
- brassiere or bra,
- briefs, broekies (S. African), bustle,
- camiknickers,
camisole, chemisette,
- combinations or (U.S. & Canad.) union suit,
- corselet,
- corset,
- crinoline,
- drawers or underdrawers,
- foundation
garment,
- French knickers,
- garter,
- girdle, G-string,
- half-slip or waist-slip,
- jockstrap or athletic support,
- knickers,
- liberty bodice,
- lingerie,
- long johns,
- pannier,
- panties, pants,
- panty girdle,
- petticoat,
shift,
- shorts or undershorts (chiefly U.S. & Canad.),
- singlet
(chiefly Brit.),
- step-ins,
- string vest,
- suspender or (U.S.) garter,
- suspender belt or (U.S.) garter belt,
- teddy,
- thermals,
- trunks,
- underpants,
- undershirt,
- underskirt, vest,
- undervest,
- undershirt, T-shirt
(U.S. & Canad.), or (Austral.) singlet,
- Y-fronts
- ackee,
- asparagus,
- aubergine or (esp. U.S., Canad., and Austral.) eggplant,
- baby corn,
- bean sprout,
- beef tomato,
- beetroot or beet,
- bok choy, Chinese leaf, Chinese cabbage, or pak-choi,
- broad been,
- broccoli,
- Brussels sprout or sprout,
- butternut pumpkin,
- cabbage,
- calabrese, calalu or calaloo,
- cardoon,
- carrot,
- cauliflower,
- celeriac,
- celery,
- chard,
- chayote,
- cherry tomato,
- chicory,
- chive,
- choko,
- collard,
- corn on the cob,
- cos,
- cos lettuce, or (U.S. & Canad.) romaine,
- courgette or (U.S., Canad. & Austral.) zucchini,
- cress,
- cucumber,
- endive,
- fennel,
- finocchio,
- frisee,
- gherkin,
- globe artichoke,
- greens,
- horseradish,
- iceberg lettuce,
- Jerusalem artichoke,
- kale or kail,
- kohlrabi,
- lamb's lettuce or corn salad,
- leek, lettuce, marrow squash,
- okra, lady's finger, or bhindi,
- onion,
- orache,
- pak-choi,
- parsnip,
- pea,
- pepper, capsicum, or (U.S.) bell pepper,
- pe-tsai cabbage,
- pimiento or pimento,
- potato,
- radicchio,
- radish,
- salsify or oyster plant,
- savoy cabbage,
- shallot,
- silver beet,
- sorrel,
- Spanish onion,
- spinach,
- spring greens,
- spring onion,
- salad onion,
- scallion (chiefly U.S.), or syboe (Scot.),
- squash,
- swede,
- sweet corn or (chiefly U.S.) corn,
- sweet potato, batata, or (N.Z.) kumera,
- turnip or (dialect) neep,
- vegetable marrow or marrow,
- yam
vehicle
- aircraft,
- ambulance,
- articulated lorry or (informal) artic,
- autocycle,
autorickshaw,
- barrow, bicycle or (informal)
- bike,
- Black Maria,
- boat,
- bulldozer, bus, cab,
- cabriolet, camion, camper (U.S. & Canad.),
- camper van, car, caravan, carriage,
- Caterpillar (trademark), chaise,
charabanc (Brit.),
- chariot, coach,
- combine harvester,
- Conestoga wagon
(U.S. & Canad.), coupé, cycle,
- delivery van or (U.S. & Canad.)
panel truck,
- Dormobile (trademark), double-decker (chiefly Brit.), dray,
- dump truck or dumper-truck,
- dustcart or (U.S. & Canad.) garbage
truck,
- estate car,
- fire engine,
- fork-lift truck,
- gritter (Brit.),
- hansom
or hansom cab,
- hatchback or hatch, hog (informal),
- jaunting car or
jaunty car, JCB (trademark),
- Jeep (trademark), jet ski,
- jinricksha,
jinrickshaw,
- jinrikisha or jinriksha,
- jitney (U.S., rare), kart,
- go-cart, or go-kart,
- kibitka, komatik, koneke (N.Z.),
- landaulet or
landaulette,
- light engine or (U.S.) wildcat,
- limousine, litter,
- locomotive, lorry,
- low-loader, luge,
- milk float,
- minibus,
- moped,
- motorbicycle,
- motorbike,
- motorbus,
- motorcar,
- motor caravan,
- motorcycle,
- motor scooter,
- motor vehicle,
- off-road vehicle,
- omnibus,
- panda car
(Brit.), pantechnicon (Brit.),
- pick-up (Austral. & N.Z.) utility
truck, or (informal) ute,
- police car, postbus,
- post chaise,
- pram, racing
car,
- railcar, ratha, rickshaw,
- roadroller,
- road train (Austral.),
- rocket,
- scooter,
- scout car,
- shandrydan,
- ship,
- single-decker (Brit.),
skibob,
- sledge or (especially U.S. & Canad.) sled, sleigh,
- Sno-Cat
(trademark),
- snowmobile,
- snow plough,
- space capsule,
- spacecraft,
- space probe,
- spaceship,
- space shuttle,
- sports car,
- stagecoach,
- steamroller,
sulky,
- tandem, tank,
- tank engine or locomotive,
- tanker,
- tarantass,
- taxi,
- telega,
- three-wheeler,
- tipper truck or lorry,
- toboggan, tonga,
- tourer
or (especially U.S.) touring car,
- traction engine, tractor,
- trail bike,
- trailer, train, tram,
- tramcar, or (U.S. & Canad.) streetcar or
trolley car,
- travois, tricycle,
- troika, trolley,
- trolleybus,
- troop
carrier, truck,
- tumbrel or tumbril,
- unicycle, van,
- wagon or waggon,
- wagonette or waggonette,
- wheelbarrow
Weapons
Projectile weapons
Projectile weapons
- ballista, bazooka, blowpipe, catapult, crossbow, fléchette, grapeshot, gun, longbow, onager, quarrel, rifle grenade, torpedo, trebuchet or trebucket
- biological warfare, bomb, chemical warfare, club, death ray, flame-thrower, germ warfare or bacteriological warfare, Greek fire, knuckle-duster, Mace (trademark), mustard gas, napalm, poison gas
- acid rain,
- ball lightning,
- breeze,
- cloud,
- cold snap,
- cyclone,
- drizzle,
- dust devil,
- dust storm,
- fog, freeze,
- gale,
- gust,
- haar (Scot.),
- hail,
- heatwave,
- hurricane,
- ice,
- lightning,
- mist,
- peasouper (chiefly Brit.),
- precipitation,
- pressure,
- rain,
- sandstorm,
- sheet lightning,
- shower,
- sleet,
- smirr (Scot.),
- snow, squall, storm,
- sunshine,
- tempest (literary),
- thaw,
- thunder,
- tidal wave,
- tornado,
- tsunami,
- typhoon,
- waterspout,
- whirlwind,
- wind,
- willy-willy (Austral.),
- zephyr
Whales and dolphins
- beluga,
- baleen whale,
- blue whale or sulphur-bottom,
- bottlenose dolphin,
- bowhead, dorado,
- Greenland whale, greyback or grey whale,
- humpback
whale,
- killer whale, grampus, or orc,
- minke whale, narwhal,
- pilot whale,
black whale, or blackfish,
- porpoise, right whale,
- rorqual, sei whale,
- sperm whale or cachalot,
- toothed whale,
- whalebone whale,
- white whale
wood
- African mahogany,
- afrormosia,
- alerce,
- amboyna or amboina,
- apple, ash,
- assegai or assagai,
- balsa,
- basswood,
- baywood,
- beech,
- beefwood,
- birch,
- black walnut,
- bog oak,
- boxwood, brazil,
- brasil, or brazil wood,
- bulletwood,
- butternut, cade,
- calamander,
- camwood,
- candlewood,
- cedar, cherry,
chestnut,
- citron wood,
- coachwood,
- corkwood,
- crabwood, cypress,
- durmast
or durmast oak,
- eaglewood,
- ebony, elm,
- fiddlewood, fir,
- gaboon,
- gopher
wood,
- greenheart,
- guaiacum or guaiocum,
- gumtree or gumwood,
- hackberry,
- hardwood,
- hazel,
- hemlock,
- hickory,
- hornbeam, iroko,
- ironwood, jacaranda,
- jelutong, kauri, kiaat,
- kingwood, koa,
- lancewood, larch,
- locust,
mahogany, maple,
- marblewood,
- nutwood, oak, olive,
- orangewood,
- padauk or
padouk,
- Paraná pine,
- partridge-wood, pear,
- persimmon,
- pine,
- pitch pine,
- poon,
- poplar,
- pulpwood,
- quassia,
- quebracho,
- red cedar,
- red fir,
- red gum,
- red oak,
- ribbonwood,
- rosewood,
- sandalwood,
- sandarac,
- sappanwood,
- sassy,
sasswood, or sassy wood,
- satinwood,
- Scots pine,
- shagbark or shellbark,
- sneezewood,
- softwood,
- spotted gum,
- spruce, stinkwood,
- sumach or sumac
(U.S.),
- sycamore,
- tamarack,
- tamarind,
- teak,
- thorn,
- toon,
- torchwood,
- tulipwood,
- tupelo,
- walnut,
- western red cedar,
- white cedar,
- white pine,
- whitewood,
- willow,
- yellowwood,
- yew,
- zebrawood
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