English Wordbook/A
From The Anglish Moot
Staff A of the English Wordbook.
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| aardvark | n | ant bear, earthswine, earthfarrow | |
| abandon | vb | forsake, forlese (pt. -lore, pp. -lorn), deep-six, forlet, of-give, up-give, throw aside, throw off, lay aside | |
| abandon | n | wantonness, recklessness | |
| abase | vb | bemean, grovel, lower, shame, nideren, nitheren | |
| abash | vb | (a)shame | |
| abate | vb | lessen, ebb, wane | |
| abattoir | n | slaughterhouse | |
| abbess | n | overmother | |
| abbot | n | overfather | |
| abbreviate | vb | shorten, foreshorten | |
| abbreviation | n | shortening, foreshortening | |
| abdicate | vb | forswear | |
| abdomen | n | riff, belly | |
| abduct | vb | kidnap, steal, steal away, neednim | |
| aberrant | n | black-sheep, wanderer, wayward kin | |
| aberration | n | freak, wandering | |
| abet | vb | help, goad, spur, hearten, frofer | |
| abhor | vb | hate, loathe, mislike | |
| ability | n | skill, dought, might, craft | |
| abject | adj | mean, wretched, neadly | |
| abjure | vb | afterquethe | |
| abjure | vb | forswear, swear off, of-swear | |
| ablactate | vb | wean | |
| ablative | n | away namefall | |
| ablaut | n | offloud | |
| able | adj | mighty, doughty, likely, fit | |
| -able | suffix | -bere (cf. O.E. "-bǽr", G. "-bar") | |
| able to, had been | phrase | might have, dought have | |
| able to, is | vb | may, dow, is mighty for/to, is up to, is like to | |
| able to, was | phrase | might, dought | |
| ablution | n | washing, bathing, cleansing | |
| abnegate | vb | forgo, forswear | |
| abnormal | adj | odd, amiss, wrong, unwell | |
| abolish | vb | fordo, get rid of, rid | |
| abominable | n | evil, foul, hateful, nasty, unholy, wargedly(OE), worgedly, wargly | |
| aboriginal | adj | erd-folkish, first-folkish, inborn, of-ginning, forebiding | |
| aborigine | n | erd-folk, first-folk,urfolk | |
| abort | vb | scrap, fordo, awaywarp(OE) | |
| abortion | n | scrapping, wightbloom-scrap, forbirthing, awaywarpness(OE) | |
| abound | vb | of-ythe(from OE cognate of latin "undus"; found in WNID2e), overflow | |
| abrasion | n | offgrinding | |
| abridge | vb | foreshorten, cut, littlen(OE) | |
| abrupt | adj | sharp | |
| abscond | vb | sneak away | |
| absence | n | lack, want, of-being, offwardness(OE) | |
| absent | adj | missing, of-being, offward(OE), not here/there | |
| absent-mindedness | n | woolgathering | |
| absinth(e)1 | n | wormwood, bitter weed | |
| absinth(e) (the liquor) | n | wormwine | |
| absolute | adj | outright, utter, full, rank | |
| absolutely | adv | fully, wholly | |
| absorb | vb | soak up, swallow, drink, up-soak, forsoak | |
| abstain | vb | forbear | |
| abstain (from) | vb | forbear, forgo, give up, quit, spurn, hold off on | |
| abundant | adj | teeming, swarming, overflowing, fulsome, rife, fat, thick, awash of-ything | |
| abuse | vb | belittle, harm, do so. harm curse, mishandle, scathe, taw, wrong, do so. wrong misbrook | |
| abysmal | adj | hellish, nethly | |
| abyss | n | hell, hole, depth</fong>, ground, netherworld | |
| acacia | n | thornbloom, hookthorn | |
| academia | n | lorework, loredom | |
| academic | adj | moot, lettered, lorewise | |
| academic | n | lorester, loreman, letterman | |
| accelerate | vb | speed, quicken, swiften | |
| accept | vb | brook, take, thole, choose, nim, hold with, settle on | |
| acceptable | adj | lovewont, loveweened, likeworthy, takeworthy, choiceworthy | |
| access | n | ingoing | |
| accessible | adj | yea-fere | |
| accessory | vb | deedmate, bykeeper | |
| accident | n | mishap | |
| accompany | vb | yea-fereshipen, yea-feren, | |
| accompanyment | n | yea-fereship | |
| accomplice | n | deedmate, yea-fere | |
| accomplish | vb phr | bring about | |
| accord | n | meeting of minds | |
| accordeon | n | bellowharp | |
| according to | adj | by | |
| account | n | ledger, ledgerbook, reckoning, tale, telling, writ, rede, umbe(on account of) | |
| account of, give | vb | set forth | |
| accountant | n | bookkeeper, teller | |
| accumulate | vb | at-flow(intransitive) | |
| accurate | adj | near, straight, aright, clean, right on | |
| accusative (case) | adj | tholefall (cf. Icelandic "þolfall") | |
| accuse | vb | guilt, wray, atwite | |
| accustom | vb | wont | |
| accustomed | adj | wont | |
| acetone | n | sourghost | |
| achieve | vb | bring about, bring into being, pull off, put through, work out | |
| acid | n | sourwater, firewater, burnwater | |
| acne | n | coppernose | |
| aconite | n | wolfsbane(nb. att'd) | |
| acquaint | vb | befriend, ken, con, meet, kithe, bekithe | |
| acquiesce | vb | cool, bow, thave | |
| acquire | vb | get, gain, earn, yea-own(OE) | |
| acquisition | n | gaining, take over, (unexpected): windfall | |
| acrobat | n | stringtumb | |
| acropolis | n | Highburg | |
| act | n | deed, work, play | |
| act | v | do, work | |
| action | n | deed, doing, work | |
| active | adj | deedy | |
| actor | n | showplayer | |
| actress | n | showplayster | |
| actual | adj | true | |
| actually | adv | indeed, truly, forsooth, soothly, wittedly(OE), deedly, in truth, as it happans | |
| acupuncture | n | pinpricking, pinprick healing, nailhealing | |
| acute | adj | sharp, shrill (accent), keen, honed, breme, cunning | |
| A.D. | adv | Y.L. | |
| ad infinitum | adv | forevermore, at eke, ekely, for eke | |
| adam's apple | n | throat boll | |
| adapter | n | joinfiter | |
| add | vb | eke, raise by, reckon up, put on, tack on, at-eke(OE) | |
| addiction | n | craving, yearning, | |
| additionally | adv | furthermore, moreover, what is more, over and above, at-ekely, ekely, eke(also) | |
| address | vb | call, name, clip, hote, bespeak, speak to, at-speak, bequethe | |
| address | n | dwellstead | |
| add up | vb | reckon | |
| adept | adj | skillful | |
| adequate | adj | enough, fit, likely, befitting, good enough, fit enough | |
| adhere | vb | cling, stick, cleave, hold, bond, at-cleave(OE) | |
| adherence to good morals | n | thewfastness | |
| adherent | n | believer, followerclinger, liefard | |
| adiposis | n | overweight | |
| adjacent | adj | near, next | |
| adjective | n | honeword | |
| adjust | vb | set, fitten, tweak, key to | |
| administration | n | handle | |
| administrator | n | handler | |
| admiral | n | fleetmaster, fleetleader | |
| admire | vb | bewonder, at-wonder, at-look | |
| admission | n | infare(entrance), kenning(acknowledgement) | |
| admit | vb | acknowledge, let, yea-thave, let in, inbring, inlet | |
| admonish | vb | warn, ware, teach, learn, tell off | |
| adolescent | n | youth, halfling, younker, frumbierding, youngling, youngster, youngun | |
| adopt | vb | nim, foster yea-kin, take on, take up | |
| adoption | n | niming, fostering, uptake, taking on, yea-kinning | |
| adorable | adj | lovely | |
| adorn | vb | bedeck, bedight, yare, trim | |
| adrenaline | n | bykidney workstuff | |
| adulation | n | flaundering, glavering | |
| adult | n | grown-up, man, woman, fullwaxener | |
| adultery | n | whoredom wedlock breach, breach of wedlock, lawbreach | |
| advance | vb | further, go, forward, put forward, aforth | |
| advance | n | inroads | |
| advance, in | adj | beforehand | |
| advancing | adj | on the make | |
| advantage | n | gain, boot, good, behoof, behoovefulness, upside | |
| advantageous | adj | gainful, furthersome, helpful, boot, behooveful, behoofsome | |
| advent | n | coming | |
| adverb | n | likeword, thewword | |
| adversity | n | <gont color=blue>hardship, hurdle, pitfall, worry, thwartsomeness, hardhap | |
| adversive | n | thwartsome | |
| advertize | vb | play up | |
| advice | n | rede, warning, input, lore, teaching, learning, bethought | |
| advise | vb | rede, warn, steer, help, hint, learn, teach, clew, yea-bethought | |
| advocate | n | midspeaker | |
| aerodynamic | adj | streamlined, wind deft, windfit, loftlithe | |
| affair | n | doing | |
| affection | n | fondness, love | |
| affectionate | adj | fond, friendly, loving, lovesome, warm-hearted | |
| affinity | n | forwanting | |
| affirmative | adv | aye, yes, yea, so, yeah, yep Yes-some, Yes-ly, Yes-ish, ayesome | |
| affix | n | wordfastning | |
| afflict | vb | ail, smite, dretch, swink, swinge | |
| affluence | n | wealth, weal, riches, fat | |
| affluent | adj | wealthy, well-to-do, well-off, rich, fat | |
| afraid | adj | frightened, scared, afeared, unfrithed(afraid being from frankish afray(n.) meaning unfrith) | |
| Africa | n | sunnygreatland, Birthland | |
| age | n | oldness, years, time, eld eldth | |
| age | vb | eld, olden, forold | |
| age(era) | n | eld, time, day, tide, older, eew, timestretch, yorestretch | |
| aged | adj | elderly, olden, forold, yore, yoren, elt, old, forolded, oldened | |
| agenda | n | todolist | |
| agglomerate | vb | clodden | |
| agglutinate | vb | wordlink | |
| aggressive | adj | threatening, fighty | |
| aggressor | n | scather | |
| agile | adj | nimble, limber, lithe, lithesome, yare, light-footed, lithecrafty, light | |
| agility | n | nimbleness, limberness, lithesomeness, light-footedness, lithecraftiness, lightness | |
| agitate | vb | key up | |
| agitated | adj | keyed-up | |
| agitation | n | worry, mindfret, phr fret of mind, ything, seething, churning | |
| agoraphobia | n | steadfear | |
| agree | vb | , settle on, hold with, *stimm to, thave | |
| agreement | n | meeting of minds | |
| agriculture | n | fieldlore, croplore, farming | |
| aid | n | help, fultum | |
| aid | vb | help, bestead, full out, frofer | |
| AIDS | n | Earned Bodyweir Scantness Sickness | |
| aim | n | goal, mark, ettle | |
| aim at | vb | get a bead on, draw a bead on | |
| air | n | wind, sky, loft, weather, life's breathe | |
| air force | n | loft-might, sky might, loft-weapon, loft-weir | |
| airport | n | skydock | |
| aisle | n | gangway | |
| alarm clock | n | wakerclock, wire-waker, wirerooster, lilter, uprouser, uprearer | |
| alas | interj | alack, woe, welaway, lackaday | |
| albino | n | whiteling | |
| album | n | whitebook | |
| albumen | n | egg white, egg lime | |
| alcohol | n | booze, firewater, wineghost | |
| alcoholic | adj | boozen | |
| alcoholic | n | sot, drunkard, malt-worm | |
| alert | adj | gleg | |
| alien | adj | unearthly, outlandish, fremd, wayward born, altheodish, farlandish, fremmed, fremmd frimmed, frimm, from abroad, from overseas, from afar | |
| alienate | vb | unkithen, fremd | |
| alkali | n | lyestuff | |
| allegory | n | forlikening | |
| allergy | n | overfeeling | |
| alleviate | vb | allay, lighten, alay | |
| alliance | n | bond, tie | |
| alliteration | n | staverhyme | |
| allocate | vb | earmark, let, fordeal | |
| allotment | n | fordealing | |
| allow | vb | let, leave | |
| allowable | adj | leavely, leavesome, letsome | |
| alloy | n | mastling | |
| allude | vb | anenten | |
| allure | vb | beswike, toll on, bewitch, lead on, draw to | |
| almanac | n | yearbook | |
| alphabet | n | abecede(OE word for alphabet), staffhoard, staffrow, staverow | |
| alphabet, runic | n | futhorc(English), futhark(Norsk) | |
| altar | n | offerboard | |
| altercation | n | fight, brangling, tangle, snarl, dust-up | |
| alternative | adj | other | |
| altitude | n | aloftness(aloft means above the ground) | |
| altruism | n | selflessness | |
| altruistic | adj | selfless, unselfish | |
| amass | vb | gather, heap, build up, mill | |
| amateur | n | lover of | |
| amazed | adj | (from Old English)aghast | |
| amazing | adj | geason, awesome, cool (colloquial) | |
| ambassador | n | rikesboder | |
| amber | n | burnstone, glarestone | |
| ambidextrous | vb | twihanded, umbecrafty, umbehandy, both-handy, umberight | |
| ambience | n | mood, feeling | |
| ambivalence | n | waver | |
| ambulance | n | sickwagon | |
| ameliorate | vb | better , eather | |
| amen | interj | soothly , yelayay | |
| America | n | Amerigoland, New World, Westlands | |
| amicable | adj | friendly | |
| ammonia | n | hartshorn, water of hartshorn | |
| amnesia | n | blackout , thoughtloss | |
| amoeba | n | shapeshifters, slimewightlet | |
| amorphous | adj | shapeless | |
| amount | n | muchness(nb. att'd), deal, lot | |
| amount to | vb | come to | |
| amphibian | n | shorewight | |
| amphitheater | n | playstow, umbewitstow | |
| amplifier | n | forstronger | |
| amplitude | n | slingwidth | |
| amputate | n | cut | |
| amusement | n | fun | |
| amusing | adj | funny | |
| anaconda | n | whipsnake | |
| anaesthetic | n | dwale | |
| anagram | n | stavewrixel | |
| anal | adj | arse, bottom, arsely | |
| analgesic | n | painlessener | |
| analyze | vb | check | |
| anastomosis (anatomy) | n | shunt | |
| anathema | n | acursed thing | |
| anatomy | n | bodylore | |
| ancestor | n | forebear, forefather, forerunner, elder, foremother | |
| ancestry | n | strain, bloodties, house, seed | |
| ancient | adj | olden, fern, yore, eldern, farback, long ago, of old, forold | |
| andiron | n | firegoat | |
| anemone | n | windrose | |
| anger | vb | foam, hackle | |
| angle | n | nook, nookspan, nookwidth | |
| anglicization | n | englishing | |
| anglicize | vb | english | |
| Anglish | n/adj | English (or Inglish), the national language of England/ Inglelond | |
| Anglish | n/adj | anglicized spelling of the Zeaxysch name for English, i.e., Anglysch | |
| Anglonic/AngloUS | n/adj | Modern (international) English | |
| Anglo-Saxon | n | Old English | |
| Anglo-Saxon runes | n | Futhorc, Fuþorc | |
| Anglosphere, the | n | English (speaking) world, the | |
| AngloUS/Anglonic | n/adj | Modern (international) English | |
| angry | adj | wrathy, wild | |
| anguish | n | headhell, wrath | |
| angular | adj | nook-shotten(nb. att'd) | |
| animal | n | deer, wight | |
| animate | vb | enliven/inliven, quicken, liven beliven | |
| animosity | n | hatred, hate | |
| annelid | n | ringworm | |
| annihilate | n | wipe out | |
| anniversary | n | yeartide | |
| anno Domini | adv | in the year of our lord | |
| announce | vb | ban, bode, bid, kithe | |
| annoy | vb | irk, nettle | |
| annual | adj | yearly | |
| annual | n | yearbook | |
| annul | vb | fordo | |
| anoint | v | anele | |
| anonym | adj | nameless | |
| anorexia | n | fastlust | |
| antagonist | n | fiend, foe gainstander | |
| antarctic | n | southpole | |
| Antarctica | n | witherbearland, South Pole, South Worldstem | |
| antecedence | n | here-to-fore, the foregoing, beforemath | |
| antediluvian | adj | foreflood | |
| anterior | adj | fore, foremost | |
| anterior | n | fore, foreside | |
| anthology | n | blossoms | |
| anthropology | n | manlore | |
| anticipate | vb | foresee, foretaste, forecome | |
| anticlockwise | adj & adv | withershins, widdershins, gainclockwise | |
| antidote | n | gainatter | |
| antigen | n | offweirstuff | |
| antilope | n | bloomgoat | |
| antimatter | n | gainstuff, unbeing, unstuff | |
| antipathy | n | mislike | |
| antipathy | n | mislike | |
| antiquated | adj | overheld, timestruck | |
| antiquity | n | oldness, elderliness, olden-times, eldness oldendom, eldern, eldtime, afern | |
| antirrhinum | n | snapdragon | |
| antisemitism | n | jewhate | |
| antiseptic | adj | gainrot | |
| antitoxin | n | gainatter | |
| antler | n | eyesprout, branchhorn | |
| antonym | n | gainname | |
| anulus | n | ring | |
| anus | n | arsehole, arsegang(OE), outgang(OE), settle(OE) | |
| anxiety | n | worry, angst, fear | |
| aorta | n | lofty heartpipe | |
| apart | adj | sundered, not together | |
| apart | adv | asunder, aside, away | |
| apartment | n | flat, room, by-room | |
| apathy | adj | uncaring | |
| aperture | n | opening, breech | |
| apex | n | peakpoint | |
| aphid | n | greenfly, blackfly, plant lice | |
| aphrodisiac | n | lustwaker | |
| apitoxin | n | beebane | |
| apogee | n | highpoint | |
| apologize | vb | say sorry, answer | |
| apology | n | answer, sorrowsaying, besaying, (defend), words of rue, rueword (regret) | |
| apostle | n | liefcarrier | |
| apparel | n | clothes, wear, threads, weed, glad rags, donnings, step-outs | |
| apparent | adj | seeming | |
| apparently | adv & phr | seemingly, at first sight, in name only, on the outside, openly, outwardly, to the eye, staringly, truthlessly | |
| appeal | vb | call, call upon, ask, beckon | |
| appealing | adj | winsomeness, fair | |
| appear | vb | become, seem, kythe, loom | |
| appear | v | atew | |
| appearance | n | look, looks, seeming, beseeming, kything, cast, leer | |
| appease | vb | allay | |
| appellation | n | name | |
| appendage | n | outgrowth | |
| appendix | n | blindgut | |
| appetite | n | craving | |
| application | n | bearing | |
| apply | vb | betake, lay on | |
| appoint | vb | fix, fit, fix time, set up, set aside, earmark, settle, turn out, deem, name | |
| apprehension | n | dread, foreboding, misgiving, fear | |
| approach | v | near | |
| approaching | adj | forthcoming, coming, upcoming, oncoming, nearing, nighlocking, nighledging | |
| appropriate | adj | fitting, seemly, meet | |
| appropriate (be) | vb | befit, beseem, behoove, behave | |
| approximate | adj | rough, near, nearby, handy | |
| approximately | adv | about, roughly, nearly, nigh, loosely | |
| April | n | Eastermonth | |
| apron | n | barmcloth | |
| apt | adj | fit, toward | |
| aquaculture | n | fish-farming | |
| aquaduct | n | waterlining | |
| aqualung | n | waterlung | |
| aquamarine | adj | seagreen | |
| aquarium | n | fishtank fishhouse | |
| aquatic | adj | watery, mere, | |
| arable | adj | plowable | |
| arachnid | n | spinerwight | |
| arboreal | adj | treewise | |
| arboretum | n | treeyard | |
| arc | n | bow | |
| archaeology | n | oldenlore, erelore | |
| archaeopterix lithographica | n | stoneprinted oldenwing | |
| archeology | n | oldeldthlore | |
| archer | n | bowman, bowyer | |
| archery | n | bowmanship, bowcraft | |
| archipelago | n | islandsea, islandgroup | |
| architecture | n | builthlore, timbercraft | |
| arctic | adj | bear-, northern | |
| arctic | n | northpole | |
| area | n | ground, stow, stead, stigh, erd | |
| argent | n | silver | |
| arguable | adj | moot, sakebere | |
| argue | vb | wrestle, squabble, wrangle, bicker, fight, tilt, sake (OE "sacan") | |
| argument | n | row | |
| aridity | n | drought, droughth, dryness, rainlessness, dryth. | |
| aristocrat | n | blue-blood, , rikeborn, richard, thoroughbred | |
| aristocratic | adj | blue-blooded, full-blooded, highbred, highborn, wellborn, rikeborn | |
| arm | vb | beweapon | |
| arm | n | handweapon | |
| armistice | n | truce | |
| armour | n | shield | |
| army | n | here, ferd, landfyrd, harr, harrmen, heer, dright, drightfolk(people's army), warband, weremight, herefolk, landferd, ganghere(foot men), inhere(homeland here) | |
| aroma | n | smell, sweetsmell | |
| around | prep & adj & adv | about, umbe | |
| arouse | vb | stir, awake, arear | |
| arrange | vb | fettle, set about | |
| arrangement | n | layout | |
| array | vb | lay out, set out | |
| arrest | vb | nab, avast | |
| arrive at | vb | reach, find, come upon, get to | |
| arrogant | adj | proud, highhanded, overweening | |
| arsenal | n | weaponhoard | |
| arson | n | firestarting | |
| arsonist | n | firestarter | |
| art | n | craft | |
| artery | n | loftblood pipe | |
| article | n | thing, writ | |
| artificial | adj | manmade, craftly | |
| artillery | n | gunware | |
| artisan | n | craftsman, wright, handyman | |
| artistry | n | craftsmanship | |
| Asatru | av | Esetroth, Ostroth | |
| Asatruar(maður) | n | Ostrothman | |
| asbestos | n | thrumstone, stone-flax, earthflax | |
| ascend | vb | climb, stigh/sty | |
| asexual reproduction | n | swiveless matchbearing | |
| Asgard | n | Osyard, Osgarth | |
| Asia | n | easterngreatland, the East | |
| asparagus | n | sparrowgrass | |
| asphalt | n | streettar | |
| assail | vb | lay into | |
| assassin | n | murderer | |
| assault | n | onset | |
| assemble | vb | gather, ban; timber, frame, build , put together, set up | |
| assembly | n | gathering, meeting, moot, meet, thing, ingathering; building, timbering, framing, get-together | |
| asset | n | holding | |
| assiduity | n | beeishness, one-mindness, steadfastness, thoroughness, tirelessness, weariless | |
| assign | vb | let, bequethe, pass on, hand on, give out, make over, deed over | |
| assimilate | vb | blend in with, be one with, bring near to, fall in with | |
| assist | vb | help, bestead, help out | |
| assistant | n | helper | |
| association | n | guild, club, yea-fering | |
| assume | vb | take, nim, fang, gather, believe, trow; fill, uptake, bear, take on, take it that, gather that | |
| assure | n | forspeaking | |
| aster | n | starbloom | |
| asterisk | n | star | |
| asterisk | n | starlet | |
| asteroid | n | worldlet | |
| asthma | n | hardbreathing, angbreast | |
| astonish | vb | dumbfound, amaze, bewonder, startle, make speechless | |
| astonished | adj | speechless, amazed, dumbfounded, bewondered, startled answerless, awondered | |
| astral | adj | starly, | |
| astronaut | n | starfarer | |
| astronomy | n | starlore | |
| astute | adj | shrewd, cunning, pretty, sharp, quick-witted | |
| asylum | n | haven, madhouse | |
| atavism | n | throwback | |
| atelier | n | workshop | |
| atheist | adj | godless, without belief in gods, beliefless, ungodsome, unliefsome, liefless | |
| atlas | n | [chart]book | |
| atmosphere | n | welkin | |
| atom | n | uncleft | |
| atrocious | adj | outmad | |
| atrophy | n | withering, dying, waning | |
| attack | n | onslaught, onset, strike, infall (upon or into) | |
| attack | vb | fight, smite, beset, set on, set upon, lay into, lay on, lay to, onslay, set upon, strike at, raid | |
| attain | vb | reach, gain | |
| attempt | n | shot, undertaking, bash | |
| attempt | vb | forseek, seek, undertake, set out, give a shot, have a bash, have a go | |
| attend | vb | heed, hear | |
| attend to | vb | see after, take care of | |
| attendant | n | steward, thane, knight, thrall, thew, theow | |
| attention | n | heed, mind | |
| attention, pay | vb | heed, mind | |
| attest | vb | witness, bear out | |
| attic | n | loft | |
| attic | n | loft, roofroom | |
| attire | n | clading | |
| attitude | n | standing, outlook | |
| attorney | n | lawyer | |
| attract | vb | latch, indraw, draw to | |
| attractive | adj | comely, good-looking, lovely, fair, handsome | |
| attribute | n | ownship | |
| aubergine | n | eggwort | |
| audacious | adj | daring, bold, fearless, cheeky, dare-all, dareful, breme, unfearing, reckless, stoor, thriste, unfrightened, daresome, unafeared, ballsy | |
| audacity | n | gall, guts, hardihood, hardiness, boldness, balls, daring | |
| audible | adj | hearable | |
| audience | n | hearing; hearers, listeners | |
| augment | vb | eke, eken, eke out | |
| August | n | Weedmonth | |
| aura | n | holyshine | |
| aurora | n | dawn, daybreak, sunrise, sun-up, shrike o' day | |
| aurora borealis | n | northern lights | |
| aurum | n | gold, yellow dust | |
| austere | adj | yarewit | |
| austerity | n | hardliness | |
| Australia | n | Southgreatland | |
| author | n | writer, maker, bookwright | |
| authority | n | leadership, swinge, higher rank | |
| auto- | prefix | self- | |
| autodidact | adj | self-taught | |
| automaker | n | wainwright | |
| automatic (gunning) | adj | self-loading, half-tilt, full-tilt | |
| autonomy | n | selflaw | |
| autonym | n | selfname | |
| autopsy | n | open bodychecking | |
| autumn | n | fall, harvest | |
| auxillary | adj | eke, backup, fallback | |
| avail | vb | bestead | |
| available | adj | free, forthcoming, in stock, come to hand | |
| avalanche | n | bergfall, fellfall, snowslide | |
| avant garde | n | forhead | |
| avenge | vb | wreak | |
| average | adj | mean, middling | |
| avert | vb | forfend(prevent), umbewend(redirect), forethwart, offturn | |
| aviary | n | birdhouse | |
| aviator | n | flyer, airman, skyman | |
| avid | adj | eager | |
| avoid | vb | miss, beware, shun formithe (half calque from German and Dutch), mithe, ware, guard against | |
| avow | vb | swear, trow, own, yea-say | |
| award | vb | bestow (upon), forlend | |
| axis | n | axle | |
| azimuth | n | starway, southernwidth, northernwidth | |
| azote | n | stickstuff | |
| azure | adj | skyblue |
