User:Hippietrail/Life: A User's Manual

Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec

 * AF (missing sense: opposed to metric)
 * alabandite
 * ammonite
 * arras
 * arum lily
 * balancelle
 * bentwood
 * billhook
 * blowlamp
 * BSP (used in descriptions of tools such as spanners and sockets)
 * burn-baited (something like slash and burn?)
 * calvary (lowercase, can be plural, a kind of religious knickknack?)
 * cart stall
 * cassiterite
 * cheesebox
 * chock-full
 * coach lamp
 * convexity
 * cornelian (older spelling of carnelian)
 * cretonne
 * Dasogale fontoynante
 * Devil’s Rings
 * doorframe
 * Dorothy bag
 * easy chair
 * endpaper
 * fibula
 * firebrass
 * fitment
 * free zone
 * gimlet
 * gingernut
 * grease gun
 * gugglet
 * handlamp
 * headship
 * heteroclite
 * hit parade (seems old fashioned now)
 * hygrographic
 * jointer
 * kingwood
 * kneehole desk
 * lancet
 * lounge suit
 * madder
 * maleficent
 * Monachus tropicalus
 * mortise
 * nest egg
 * novelette
 * octobass a string instrument related to the double bass requiring two musicians to play
 * oilcan (single word variant)
 * opaline
 * ormolu
 * parallelepipedal
 * pastille
 * perspicacious
 * Pinchart stool
 * a pink (not the colour, perhaps a flower?)
 * polka-dot (hyphenated variant)
 * procurator
 * propitiatory
 * Ptyx
 * rabbet
 * shako
 * shopfloor
 * sprat
 * sunstone
 * suzerain
 * swearword (single word variant)
 * tendrac
 * tenon saw
 * tergal
 * trionix
 * Troides allotte
 * twibill
 * unicum (plural unica)
 * verbena
 * wallpress
 * warehousemen
 * wing chair
 * witches’ mirrors
 * vulcanite
 * zorille
 * zucchetto (needs English)


 * æolian harp
 * agnate
 * ahistorical
 * angelica
 * angosfura
 * anthurium
 * aphetism
 * arthrosis
 * assay-dish
 * babouche
 * baize
 * bearskin
 * bedjacket
 * bicorne
 * bird pepper
 * bisque
 * blackout lamp
 * boletus
 * bootees
 * bootlace
 * bosky
 * breitschwanz
 * bricked up
 * brucellosis
 * burnous
 * cake-slice
 * calvados
 * carriage clock
 * case clock
 * cephalalgias
 * cess-pit
 * châteaux
 * charlady
 * chervil
 * chiffomier
 * chintz
 * clematis
 * cloche
 * Coco weddelliana
 * comfit boy
 * copper (horse-drawn vehicle?)
 * corolla
 * costermonger
 * curare
 * debag
 * debouch
 * descaling
 * dishstand
 * Djakarta
 * djellaba
 * dolman
 * domino costume
 * dram
 * dubbin
 * dura mater
 * dustbin
 * dustcover
 * dyne
 * elucubrating
 * emerised
 * emery
 * encephalum
 * épaulette
 * erg
 * esparto
 * eyebath
 * ferrocerium
 * fibrotoxin
 * firedog
 * flatlet
 * FLN
 * floorcloth
 * floortile
 * fluidic
 * flyleaf
 * foodpack
 * footstool
 * forename
 * fortalice
 * fretwork
 * frogging
 * galalith
 * galena
 * gewgaw
 * gingham
 * glory-hole
 * go to ground
 * gunflint
 * gunwale
 * haitué
 * harissa
 * harkis
 * haversack
 * hide-out
 * Hitlerian
 * hole up
 * hour-book
 * hydantergotine
 * ill at ease
 * incrusted
 * innervated
 * Jack-o’-the-clock
 * job lot
 * kirsch
 * koulibiaca
 * librettist
 * liguite
 * loss leader
 * lubricious
 * lumpfish
 * manageress
 * mandola
 * marguerite
 * marquetry
 * martingale
 * mashie
 * maxiton
 * medina
 * medius finger
 * mignonette
 * moleskin
 * monkish
 * moonflower
 * Moses basket
 * naevus
 * nelumbia
 * night bird
 * OAS
 * œsophagus
 * open-work
 * orreries
 * osier
 * palæopedology
 * paperknife
 * parfit
 * pegamoid
 * peripeteia
 * piecework
 * Pigeon lamp
 * porterage
 * prayermat
 * propelling pencil
 * proteolytic
 * pseudohallucinatory
 * purplewood
 * quattrocentro
 * quenelles
 * quetsch
 * rachidian bulb
 * Ragusa -- former name of Dubrovnik
 * rebab
 * restaurateur
 * retsina
 * Rexist
 * rigmarole
 * rivière (needs English)
 * sabretache
 * salsify
 * saponified
 * saucerful
 * schmecker
 * schoolma’am
 * schussing
 * scialytic lamp
 * scot-free
 * scrapmerchant
 * scree
 * scrimshanker
 * sestet
 * settle down
 * seyalitic
 * siphonapteroid
 * soliflor
 * spinet
 * staddle
 * stalag
 * stopcock
 * strongroom
 * take a shine to
 * tam o’shanter
 * theorbo
 * thermophonic
 * through-stone
 * toothmug
 * toothpuller
 * topazine
 * toyshop
 * trapezial
 * trichinosis
 * tromp-l’oeil
 * turbot
 * turnip watch
 * untellable
 * usufruct
 * vitrified
 * war machine
 * whitewood
 * wishy-washy
 * woggle
 * worktop
 * zenana


 * aegipanes
 * agripanes
 * aide-de-camp
 * alosa
 * alpenstock
 * amaurosis
 * appanage
 * ashlar
 * autarchic
 * bandoneon
 * besmocked
 * bezant
 * boozer
 * borshch
 * bourdon
 * boxword
 * brilliants
 * canaliculi
 * catalyses
 * chador
 * chalybeate
 * cheval glass
 * chit
 * cloissonné
 * commissionaire
 * communiqué
 * coney
 * cordiform
 * curundum
 * cyclostyled
 * dirk
 * disjunctor
 * draisienne
 * entrains
 * espalier
 * ex-libris
 * faro
 * fly-box
 * flyleaves
 * foot-slog
 * foxed
 * galliot
 * glomerulus
 * goatskin
 * goniometer
 * gorse
 * groschen
 * gules
 * hawkweed
 * hearth-point
 * hellbent
 * hemihedral
 * herbarium
 * hereinafter
 * hide-out
 * hogshead
 * holohedral
 * horsecloth
 * houselights
 * huckster
 * שרי
 * intagliated
 * ithyphallic
 * jardinière
 * landslip
 * lares
 * liriodendron
 * locum
 * logogriph
 * malosol
 * Mameluke
 * manometer
 * manufactory
 * mezuzah
 * middy
 * muzhik
 * olivewood
 * outfaced
 * ovoid
 * oystermen
 * patten
 * pelmet
 * period piece
 * phylactery
 * planisphere
 * podgy
 * retimitis
 * romper
 * roup sale
 * run-of-the-mill
 * saveloy
 * sealskin
 * shagreen
 * shantung
 * sine die
 * sound box
 * sporran
 * spurge
 * streetseller
 * suedette
 * supranational
 * Swissess
 * sylvans
 * tarry-torch
 * through-stone
 * torero
 * trencher
 * tricorn
 * tub chair
 * ultraselect
 * uropoïesis
 * uroscopy
 * vibraphone
 * vicar apostolic
 * visiting card
 * wadi
 * washhouse
 * watercolourist
 * wolfram
 * yachtswoman
 * yardstick
 * zakuski