* affianced: betrothed, bound to be married
  * amphigory: a nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless
  * apothegm: pithy bit of wisdom or maxim
  * arrant: consummate, thoroughgoing, complete
  * asperity: hardship, rigor, tribulation
  * athwart: From side to side; crosswise
  * benthos: The collection of organisms living on or in the bottom of a body of water; the bottom of a body of water
  * catawampus: Out of alignment, crooked, cater-corner; fierce, destructive
  * chanson: a song (especially in French)
  * debark: to unload freight; to disembark
  * defilade: to arrange (fortifications) so as to protect the lines from frontal or enfilading fire and the interior from fire from above or behind (see enfilade)
  * diapason: full, rich outpouring of melodious sound; tuning fork
  * dromomaniac: someone with the uncontrollable urge to walk or wander.
  * enfilade: volley of gunfire from a flanking position (see defilade)
  * ephemeron: a collectible
  * escalade: the act of climbing a wall as a siege tactic
  * esthesis: an elementary awareness of stimulation
  * estivate: to go dormant in the summer
  * faience: glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors
  * hebdomad: a group of seven
  * hebetude: lethargy, torpor, or dullness
  * hegira: an exodus or migration
  * helicon: a large brass instrument resting on the shoulder
  * hemostat: clamp for stopping bleeding
  * holdfast: The part of an aquatic plant that anchors it to something
  * howdah: majestic perch atop an elephant
  * incus: anvil in the middle ear
  * intestate:  One who dies without a legal will.
  * isobar: a line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure.
  * lucubrate: write or study, especially by night.
  * luster: a glass pendant in a chandelier
  * mantic: of or relating to the faculty of divination: prophetic.
  * moire: fabric with a rippled pattern
  * natant: swimming or floating
  * neonate: a newborn infant, esp. less than 1 month old
  * nesselrode: kind of pie similar to tutti-fruti
  * nugatory: of little or no consequence
  * nunatak: Rocky peak sticking out of a glacier
  * paludiculture: wet agriculture and forestry on peatlands
  * pronoiac: A person who feels that the world around them conspires to do them good (opposite of paranoiac)
  * risible: laugh inducing, ludicrous
  * saturnine: slow and gloomy; when relating to appearance, dark in coloring; moody or mysterious
  * tantivy: at a full gallop
  * taphonomy: the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized or preserved in the paleontological record. 
  * teander: Feature of a sinuous river
  * volant: Flying or capable of flying; Moving quickly or nimbly; agile; depicted with the wings extended as in flying.
  * volte-face: total reversal of stance