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- Ailurophile - a cat-lover.
- Autexousious - exercising or possessing free will.
- Concupiscence - sexual desire; lust.
- Cynosure - a focal point of admiration.
- Dalliance - a brief love affair.
- Denouement - the resolution of a mystery.
- Drudgery - dull or hard work.
- Efflorescence - flowering, blooming.
- Eloquence - beauty and persuasion in speech.
- Embrocation - a bruised or diseased part of the body.
- Ephemeral - short-lived.
- Ethereal - extremely delicate or refined, heavenly or celestial.
- Euonym - a pleasing or beautiful name.
- Exosculate - to kiss fervently or heartily.
- Gardeviance - chest for valuables; a travelling trunk.
- Halcyon - calm and peaceful; tranquil. Prosperous; gold.
- Harbinger - messenger with news of the future.
- Imbrication - overlapping and forming a regular pattern.
- Ingénue - a naïve young woman.
- Languor - listlessness, inactivity.
- Lassitude - weariness of body or mind from strain.
- Mellifluous - sweet sounding.
- Mondegreen - a word or phrase that is misinterpreted as another word or phrase, usually with an amusing result.
- Ossify - to convert into or cause to harden like bone.
- Panacea - a solution for all problems
- Paroxysm - any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion.
- Pastiche - an art work combining materials from various sources.
- Perantique - very antique or ancient.
- Petrichor - the smell of earth after rain.
- Quixotic - extremely romantic and chivalrous.
- Saudade - longing for something or someone that you love and which is lost.
- Schadenfreude - satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
- Serendipity - finding something nice while looking for something else.
- Siagonology - study of jaw-bones.
- Skullduggery - underhand dealing; trickery.
- Soigné - showing sophisticated elegance; fashionable.
- Surreptitious - secretive, sneaky.
- Ubiquitous - being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent.
- Wanderlust - A great desire to travel and rove about;
- Kalopsia - The delusion that things are more beautiful than they are;
- Lypophrenia - A sense or feeling of sorrow or sadness, without any apparent cause or source;
- Allemande - Courtly baroque dance in which the arms are interlaced;
- Logophile - A lover of words;
- Delenda - Things to be deleted or distroyed;
- Orphrey - Gold or other rich embroidery;
- Phrontistery - A thinking-place; A place of study;
- Celeste - Sky blue;
- Aureate - The fanciful and flowery language of poets;
- Rosarium - A rose garden; Or someone who grows roses;
- Eudaemonia - True happiness;
- Eremite - A hermit; One who lives in solitude;
- Eidolon - A phantom, or spectre; A shadow of mere existence;
- Acosmist - One who believes that nothing exists;
- Paralian - A person who lives near the sea;
- Dwale - To wander about deliriously;
- Sabaism - The worship of stars;
- Dysphoria - An unwell feeling;
- Aubade - A love song which is sung at dawn;
- Eumoirous - Happiness due to being honest and wholesome;
- Mimp - To speak in a prissy manner, usually with pursed lips;
- Quiescent - A quiet, soft-spoken soul;
- Chimerical - Merely imaginary; Fanciful;
- Susurrus - A whispering or rustling sound;
- Raconteur - One who excels in story-telling;
- Clinquant - Glittering; Tinsel-like;
- Ephemeral - Lasting a very short time;
- Sempiternal - Everlasting; Eternal;
- Euphonious - Pleasing; Sweet in sound;
- Billet-doux - A love letter;
- Redamancy - Act of loving in return;
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