acini - blackberry drupes agni - Hindu fire God agnate - related via rthe mael side agogo - wooden bell in Latin-American music ahimsa - Buddhist law of non violence aioli - garlic mayonaise albion - poetic term for Britain alidade - surveyor's sighting device alsike - clover forage also - plus ambo - elevated desk or pulpit amharic - language of Ethiopia angkor - AnkorWat Khmer temple of Suryavarman II (1113-1150) ani - American cuckoo anole - American chameleon antheros - flowering anura - frogs and toads arcali - mountasin sheep argil - pottery clay aril - seed covering armoire - ornate closet arris - sharp edge of stone block aruba - Curacao / Antilles island ascot - wide silk cravat assai - Brazilian palm asses - ancient Roman copper coins aura - pre-migraine symptom auteur - creative film director avesta - zoroastrian scriptures banquette - upholstered bench bodhran - irish folk drum bruxism - tooth grinding bulla - papal seal burgeon - flourish, grow cabriolet - small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage caltrop - tyre puncturing device canard - a deliberately misleading fabrication carboy - beer fermenting vessel catspaw - dupe cavendish - cake of sweetened tobacco cedi - Ghana currency chaise - open carriage chape - belt buckle tongue choli - Indian under bodice cineaste - film buff cire - waxed finish cisssing - curling and cracking of paint clarion - medieval trumpet commis - apprentice chef compeer - equal peer copita - sherry glass cotta - short surplice credenza - sideboard criterium - short bicycle race crus - French vinyards crystal - neutral red cross symbol cupel - gold refing vessel curia - papal governing body cynosure - centre of attraction dicta - pronouncements distaff - female side dojo - judo room durrie - Indian cotton rug edda - Norse mythalogical poems eddo - taro eldritch - weird, sinister elios - Olympia city state elis - Olympia city state encomium - panagyric eulogy ergo - hence erinyes - 3 furies eschar - dry burn scab esker - glacier ridge estrade - dais etrier - rope ladder exon - commander of yeomen of the guard fbi - US police office fess - central band across a shield finial - gable ornament firn - icy snow flaunch - slope at base of chimney flence - slice blubber from a whale flews - bloodhound's hanging lips fusil - light musket ganache - chocolate cream gangue - worthless ore gaucho - south american cowboy gaud - bauble genoa - large jib gigot - lamb leg suitable for roasting gilet - waistcoat vest gis - Judo outfits gite - French holiday house glair - Bookbinders egg white adhesive glassine - translucent book jacket material glencoe - Scottish massacre gnostic - early Christian heretic grandee - Spanish aristicrat guarani - language in Paraguay haar - Springtime fog that drifts from the North Sea hansa - medieval guild haulm - bedding stalks hurley - (Frank) Shackleton's photographer ichnite - fossil footprint ida - highest peak on Crete ihram - Islam pilgrim robes ilo - UN labour organisation impetigo - skin infection ingenue - innocent young girl istria - Croatian peninsula jongleur - minstrel kahlo - Mexican artist kama - hindu love deity kilim - pileless Persian rug kilimanjaro - Africa highest mountain klezmer - Jewish music knish - savoury dumpling kolkata - Calcutta kylin - mythical Chinese beast laciniate - fringed laodicean - lukewarm on religion laser - olympic sailing class lathi - Indian police baton lear - Edward, 1812-1888, Limerick inventor leeward - Guadeloupe and Montserrat lei, leu - Romanian currency lipogram - text excluding selected letters logan - rocking stone. loggia - open balcony lome - capital of Togo louche - appealingly disreputable lungi - Indian loincloth maar - shallow volcanic crater macaque - short tailed old world monkey machan - hunting platform maidan - Indian village square maniple - Roman legion subdivision marc - brandy made from grape pressings maresnest - illusory discovery marl - fertilizer additive melpomone - muse of tragedy mirador - watch tower mola - sunfish muumuu - Hawaii dress napa - California wine valley nawab - Indian muslim prince neve - snow nisus - striving towards a goal nori - sushi seaweed wrap noria - water wheel with buckets nosology - classification of diseases nunavut - Inuit self governing region nuuk - capital of Greenland nyala - Antelope o'brien - Patrick, creator of Jack Aubrey naval novels oche - darts throwing line okavango - river border of Angola and Namibia okhotsk - sea near Siberia okta - cloud cover measure orle - heraldry shield border oscan - extinct Italian tongue oss - pre cia oud - arabic lute parol - oral evidence pashm - cashmere shawl wool panchen - second highest lama passim - everywhere in a text peloton - cycle race main pack pericope - extract from bible perron - external flight of steps or stairs piedaterre - occasional residence pipkin - small earthenware pot polder - piece of land reclaimed from sea polliwog - tadpole posset - milk and ale drink puli - Hungarian sheepdog putto - young male angel rata - New Zealand tree rebs - Johnny, and Billy Yanks, US Civil War soldiers renminbi - Chinese currency risque - racy roue - debauched man ruck - informal rugby scrum saar - vosges river salmi - rich game ragout samfu - Chinese woman's outfit sami - Scandinavian natives sanaa - capital of Yemen scopa - bees pollen tuft scry, scried- predict, devined sei - whale sharia - Islamic Code of Law sheol - hebrew underworld siena - panaforte cake sisyphean - endless task ska - reggae's forerunner skep - wicker beehive slub - thickened piece of yarn snellen - vision test sommelier - wine steward spall - splinter of rock speleothem - stalactite or stalagmite staysail - auxiliary sail stent - heart artery splint suborn - induce by bribery syrinx - panpipes tahr - Himalayan goat tagalog - Filipino language taiga - swampy Siberian forest takin - Himalayan goat-antelope talaria - Mercury's winged sandals talus - scree tapenade - olive anchovy paste taphonomy - study of the process of fossilization teapoy - three -legged table teledu - Indonesian badger tempera - egg yolk painting medium terne - tin lead alloy theorbo - long-necked lute tittle - tiny amount transom - fanlight tronc - pooled waiters tips trope - figurative use of an expression trug - wooden gardening basket tumefy - swell tupik - Inuit skin tent twibill - battleaxe tynwald - Isle of Man parliament udal - pre-feudal land ownership uhlan - European lancer ukase - tsar's edict umiak - inuit rowing boat uncial - Majascule script undercrypt - church crypt urodele - newt, salamander vaporetto - powered Venetian water bus velum - soft palate vouge - halberd wale - corduroy strip wilkie - W.Collins detective story writer wolf - Naomi, feminist writer xebec - Algerian pirate ship yupik - Alskan Eskimo yurt - circular Mongolian tent zia-ul-haq - Pakistan city