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See also: Student, stúdent, stüdent, študent, and Študent English Wikipedia has an article on: student Wikipedia From Middle English student, studient...

See also: Cunning English Wikipedia has an article on: cunning Wikipedia Rhymes: -ʌnɪŋ IPA(key): /ˈkʌnɪŋ/ From Middle English cunning, kunning, konnyng...

Borrowed from Middle French apparent, Old French aparent, aparant, in turn from Latin appārēns, appārentis, present participle of appāreō. (UK) IPA(key):...

reflexion From Middle French reflexion, reflection, and its source Late Latin reflexio, from the participle stem of reflectō. The current spelling is influenced...

IPA(key): /ɹiːfaɪnd/ refined simple past and past participle of refine The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene. refined (comparative more refined,...

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /tɪlt/ Rhymes: -ɪlt From Middle English tilte, from Old English *tyltan, *tieltan (“to be unsteady”)...

From Old French detenir. Cognate with Italian detenere, Portuguese deter, Romanian deține, and Spanish detener. (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈteɪn/ Rhymes: -eɪn detain...

Earliest uses (late 16th c.) "to spend recklessly or prodigiously", also "to scatter over a wide area". Of unknown origin. Perhaps a blend of scatter +‎...

emprison From Middle English imprisonen, emprisounen, emprisonen, from Old French emprisonner. IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɹɪzən/ Rhymes: -ɪzən imprison (third-person...

See also: Appendix:Variations of "um" (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) IPA(key):...

Attested since the 16th century; from Middle French demoliss-, the stem of some conjugated forms of the verb demolir (“to destroy”, “to tear down”), from...

See also: ien and iëŋ From Old Breton -ion, -on, Proto-Brythonic *-onos, *-onā. Cognate to Welsh -ion, Cornish -yon. -ien Noun pluralization suffix; sometimes...

From Middle French confronter, borrowed from Medieval Latin cōnfrontāre, from con- + frontem (“front, forehead”). IPA(key): /kənˈfɹʌnt/ Rhymes: -ʌnt (obsolete)...

From Middle English residue, from Old French residu, from Latin residuum, neuter of residuus (“remaining”), from resideō (“I remain behind”). (General...

English Wikipedia has an article on: balcony Wikipedia From Italian balcone (“balcony, floor-length window”), from Old Italian balcone (“scaffold”) from...

dreadfull dredful (obsolete) From Middle English dredful, dredfull, dredeful (also dreful), equivalent to dread +‎ -ful. IPA(key): /ˈdɹɛd.fʊl/ dreadful...

Gallus +‎ -iformes Galliformes A taxonomic order within the subclass Aves – turkeys, grouse, quails, pheasants etc. (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom;...

From Middle English submissioun, from Old French soubmission, from Latin submissio, from submitto. IPA(key): /səbˈmɪʃən/ submission (countable and uncountable...

From Middle English rectifien, from Anglo-Norman rectifiier, rectefier (“to make straight”), from Medieval Latin rēctificō (“to make right”), from Latin...

(phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈuː] (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈuː] Ú (upper case, lower case ú) The thirty-fifth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called ú and...