Casse-cailloux, via Wikimedia Commons
Allow yourself to learn a few words. We’ll never know; you’re going to tackle these soon when you get to learn English at language school. So here are the long lists:
A
Aba garment of camel or goat hair; camel or goat-hair fabric
B
Basilicon kind of ointment
C
Cacodemomania pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
D
Dactylomegaly condition of having abnormally large digits
E
Economacy position of controller of ecclesiastical affairs
F
Floromancy belief that flowers have feelings
G
Gambado bound or spring of a horse; fantastic movement
H
Hagiarchy government by saints or holy persons
I
Ixora tropical evergreen shrub with white flowers
J
Jackstay iron or wooden bar running along yard of ship to which sails fastened
K
Kaleidophone instrument for demonstrating sound waves by lines of light
L
Lampyridine of, like or pertaining or pertaining to glow-worms or fireflies
M
Madder Red dye made from Brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour
N
Nef ornamental stand in shape of ship for holding salt or cutlery
O
Octonary of, like or pertaining to or consisting of eight things; grouped in eights
P
Palinspastic showing geological formations of an area as they existed in the past
Q
Quadripole device having one pair of output terminals and one pair of input terminals
R
Recusant one who refuses to attend Catholic Church services; nonconformist
S
Samarra flame-decorated cassock worn by those condemned by the Inquisition
T
Tachistoscope instrument for rapidly showing images on a screen to test perception
U
Urdee of a heraldic device, pointed or broken into parallel pointed projections
V
Venography injecting radioactive material into veins for medical examination
W
Wassail toast to someone’s health; to go caroling or carousing; spiced ale
X
Xenolith fragment of extraneous rock embedded in magma or another rock
Y
Yale mythical animal resembling tusked horse with elephant’s tail and used in heraldry
Z
Zoogyroscope device for depicting the movement of animals through rotating images
