| | Word | Context |
| A | Aback | taken aback |
| | Abeyance | held in abeyance |
| | Afield | further afield (or, more correctly, farther afield) |
| | Afore | afore ye go |
| | Aforethought | malice aforethought |
| | Akimbo | legs akimbo [or arms akimbo, if you must] |
| | Allay | allay one's fears |
| | Allsorts | licorice allsorts |
| | Amok | running amok |
| | Anabolic | anabolic steroid |
| | Apace | carry on apace |
| | Apportioning | apportioning blame |
| | Arrant | arrant nonsense |
| | Ashen | ashen faced |
| | Askance | look askance |
| | Augur | augur well |
| | Aweigh | anchor(s) aweigh |
| | Awry | go awry |
| B | Bandied | bandied about |
| | Bastion | last bastion |
| | Bended | bended knee |
| | Bestriding | bestriding the earth (like a colossus) |
| | Betides | ill betides |
| | Bevelled | bevelled edge |
| | Bevy | bevy of beauties |
| | Biding | biding one's time |
| | Bleary | bleary eyed |
| | Blindingly | blindingly obvious |
| | Blithering | blithering idiot |
| | Bode | bode well |
| | Boggles | the mind boggles |
| | Bounden | one's bounden duty |
| | Breakneck | breakneck speed |
| | Brimstone | (hell)fire and brimstone |
| | Brooking | brooking no delay |
| | Brunt | bear the brunt |
| | Burton | go for a burton |
| | Buts | ifs and buts |
| | Bygones | let bygones be bygones [unless you're Richard Fish] |
| C | Caped | caped crusaders |
| | Charnel | charnel house |
| | Chattels | goods and chattels |
| | Clarion | clarion call |
| | Comings | comings and goings |
| | Concerted | concerted effort [or concerted attempt, but it's the same thing really] |
| | Corned | corned beef |
| | Cowardy | cowardy custard |
| | Craw | stick in one's craw |
| | Cred | street cred [a bit of a cheat, as it is an abbrev'n] |
| | Cropper | come a cropper |
| | Cud | chewing the cud |
| D | Dandle | dandle on one's knee |
| | Daylights | scare the living daylights out of |
| | Deleterious | deleterious effect |
| | Derring | derring-do |
| | Diametrically | diametrically opposed |
| | Doff | doff one's cap/hat |
| | Drabs | dribs and drabs |
| | Dribs | dribs and drabs |
| | Dudgeon | high dudgeon |
| | Dulcet | dulcet tones |
| E | Encyclopaedic | encyclopaedic knowledge |
| | Endearment | term of endearment |
| | Engorged | engorged penis [sorry, but it had to be said] |
| | Eponymously | eponymously named [somewhat tautological] |
| | Exacted | exacted revenge |
| | Extenuating | extenuating circumstances |
| | Extinguisher | fire extinguisher |
| | Extol | extol one's virtues |
| F | Fain | I fain would do something |
| | Fangled | new fangled |
| | Fettle | in fine fettle |
| | Figgy | figgy pudding |
| | Figment | figment of the imagination |
| | Flossing | flossing one's teeth |
| | Flotsam | flotsam and jetsam |
| | Flout | flout the rules |
| | Fogey | old fogey |
| | Foregone | foregone conclusion |
| | Froing | toing and froing |
| | Fruitfulness | (season of mists and) mellow fruitfulness |
| | Fruition | come to fruition |
| | Fullness | in the fullness of time |
| G | Gird | gird one's loins |
| | Gladsome | gladsome mind |
| | Glaringly | glaringly obvious |
| | Glean | glean information |
| | Gloaming | roaming in the gloaming |
| | Goings | comings and goings |
| | Gordian | gordian knot [yes, I know that it's a proper name, but what the hell - I like it] |
| | Grail | holy grail |
| | Graven | graven image |
| | Grist | grist to one's mill |
| H | Halcyon | halcyon days [as opposed to Halcion™ daze] |
| | Hawing | humming and hawing |
| | Hazarded | hazarded a guess |
| | Headway | make headway |
| | Heinous | heinous crime |
| | Hermetic | hermetic seal |
| | Holpen | holpen are good folks on earth... [or so I am told - never heard of the word myself] |
| | Honcho | head honcho |
| | Honed | finely honed |
| I | Ifs | ifs and buts |
| | Ilk | of that ilk |
| | Immemorial | time immemorial |
| | Imprest | imprest account |
| | Implacably | implacably opposed |
| | Inclement | inclement weather |
| | Indeedy | yes, indeedy |
| | Ingrown | ingrown toenail |
| | Injun | honest injun |
| | Inopportune | inopportune moment |
| | Inroads | to make (giant) inroads |
| | Intents | all intents (and purposes) |
| | Internecine | internecine war |
| | Inveterate | inveterate liars |
| J | Jetsam | flotsam and jetsam |
| | Jinks | high jinks |
| K | Kaboodle | the whole (kit) kaboodle |
| | Keynote | keynote speech |
| | Kilter | out of kilter |
| | Kith | kith and kin |
| | Knell | death knell |
| L | Limpid | limpid pools [as opposed to limpet pools] |
| | Lurgy | dreaded lurgy |
| M | Madding | madding crowd [originally a proper noun, but often used as an improper one these days!] |
| | Mercies | small mercies |
| | Meteoric | meteoric rise [although meteors actually fall] |
| | Mettle | test one's mettle |
| | Middling | fair to middling |
| | Mindedness | (sheer) bloody mindedness |
| | Misspent | misspent youth |
| | Monty | the full monty [other Montys' being proper nouns] |
| | Morphic | morphic resonance [sic] |
| | Mortally | mortally wounded/injured |
| | Mote | mote in one's eye |
| | Motley | motley crew |
| | Muchness | much of a muchness |
| | Mucker | me old mucker |
| N | Naan | naan bread |
| O | Olden | olden times |
| | Opportune | opportune moment |
| | Overstay | overstay one's welcome |
| | Oxbow | oxbow lake |
| P | Panatellas | slim panatellas |
| | Paragon | paragon of virtue |
| | Paydirt | hit paydirt |
| | Pease | pease pudding |
| | Petard | hoist by one's own petard |
| | Petered | petered out |
| | Pilau | pilau rice |
| | Pipped | pipped at the post |
| | Pique | fit of pique |
| | Plaintive | pliantive cry |
| | Plighting | plighting one's troth |
| | Politic | the body politic |
| | Preemptive | preemptive strike |
| | Prehensile | prehensile tail |
| | Pristine | pristine condition |
| | Procurator | procurator fiscal |
| | Prodigal | prodigal son |
| | Prorogation | prorogation of parliament |
| Q | Quench | quench one's thirst |
| R | Rarebit | Welsh rarebit |
| | Raring | raring to go |
| | Razed | razed to the ground |
| | Roughshod | riding roughshod over |
| | Runcible | runcible spoon [an invented word, but now appearing in dictionaries - apparently] |
| S | Sallied | sallied forth |
| | Salver | silver salver |
| | Sandboy | happy as a sandboy |
| | Scaredy | scaredy cat |
| | Sceptered | this sceptered isle |
| | Scrimp | scrimp and save |
| | Scrump | scrump for apples |
| | Scudding | scudding clouds |
| | Scupper | scupper plans |
| | Searing | searing heat |
| | Semblance | some semblance (of order) |
| | Serried | serried ranks |
| | Shadowy | shadowy figure |
| | Shagger | sheep shagger [whatever that might be] |
| | Shrift | short shrift |
| | Singally | signally fail (to do something) |
| | Snook | cock a snook |
| | Sparring | sparring partner |
| | Spangled | star spangled |
| | Squally | squally showers |
| | Superhighway | information superhighway [the word may have other uses, but you don't hear them used on my side of the Atlantic] |
| | Swagman | jolly swagman |
| | Swimmingly | to go swimmingly |
| | Swingeing | swingeing cuts |
| T | Tantamount | tantamount to saying |
| | Temerity | have the temerity to suggest |
| | Tempora | egg tempora |
| | Tenterhooks | hanging on tenterhooks |
| | Thermidor | lobster thermidor [a bit of a cheat, as Thermidor was a Revolutionary French month and, hence, a proper noun] |
| | Thither | hither and thither |
| | Thrupenny | thrupenny bit |
| | Tinpot | tinpot dictator |
| | Toing | toing and froing |
| | Tortuous | tortuous route |
| | Travesty | travesty of justice |
| | Tribulations | trials and tribulations |
| | Trickster | confidence trickster |
| | Troth | plighting one's troth |
| | Trove | treasure trove |
| | Truckle | truckle bed |
| | Tuffet | little Miss Muffett sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey |
| U | Ulterior | ulterior motive |
| | Umbrage | take umbrage |
| | Unalloyed | unalloyed pleasure |
| | Unawares | take unawares |
| | Undivided | undivided attention |
| | Unquenchable | unquenchable thirst |
| | Unrequited | unrequited love |
| | Unreservedly | apologise unreservedly |
| | Unsung | unsung hero |
| V | Vanishingly | vanishingly small |
| | Varicose | varicose veins [careful - bordering on the scientific there] |
| | Vestal | vestal virgins [yes, I know Vesta is a proper name] |
| | Vitriolic | vitriolic attack |
| W | Wend | wend one's way |
| | Whiling | whiling away |
| Y | Yore | days of yore |
| Z | Zoot | zoot suit [Zoot Horn Rollo is a proper name, so it doesn't count] |