Bizarre or interesting words
ABAMP – an ABAMPERE, i.e. 10 amps
AZOTH – quicksilver
BEHOTING – vowing
BOORD – old spelling of board, also BOORDE
BOUBOU – a garment worn in Africa
CLOOP – the sound that is produced by removing the cork from a bottle
CUPEL – verb to refine gold or silver by cupellation
CYTON – the body of a nerve cell
DAVEN – verb to lead prays
DOOLE – grief ... a variant of DOLE, DOOL and DULE
EPHOD – a vestment worn by priests in ancient Israel
EXILIC – adj pertaining to exile. Also EXILIAN
FROGBIT – an aquatic plant
GIUSTO – adv (musical) in strict time
GOOPY – gooey
HORME—purposive behaviour
ITHER— adj other
KINDY— kindergarten
KNOSP— architectural term for a flower bud … KNOP
KUVASZ— a large dog, plural VASZOK
LIKIN— a transit duty that was once used in China
LOSEL— a waste of space
LYCEA— plural public lecture halls
MERFOLK— a group of mermaids or mermen, also MERPEOPLE
MOSTE— past t of mote
MOTET— a church cantata, also MOTETT
NOVITY— novelty
OSNABURG—a coarse cotton
PILUS—a hair, plural PILI
PIROJKI— Russian pastry
QUEINT— past p of quench
RAGDE— shaggy
SPAEMEN— seers
STENO— a stenographer
SYVER— a drain grating. Also SIVER
TAULD— past p of told
TRIGO— wheat
TSADE— a Hebrew letter. Also SADE
VARAN— a monitor lizard
VODOUN— West Indian primitive religion, also VODUN
WAIFT—goods washed up by the tide
WANNEL— supple, also WANLE and WANDLE
WEDEL— verb to perorm a WEDELN (a particular skiing technique)
YAIRD— a garden
YAUTIA— a tropical plant
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