- Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka was formerly Ceylon
- flanch - to flanch is to spread out or slope outwards towards the top
- allottery - an allottery is an allotted share
- bruxism - habitual grinding of the teeth is bruxism
- Holy Ark - the Holy Ark is the closet where the Torah is kept in a synagogue
- karmadharaya - karmadharaya is 'a compound word in which the first part of the word describes the second part'
- hic jacet - hic jacet is Latin for 'here lies,' commonly the first words of Latin epitaphs
- nourishment - wine or spirits given medicinally can be called nourishment
- psyche - psyche was so called for a Greek heroine, the name translating to 'breath' or 'life' or 'soul'
- echo sounder - an echo sounder measures the depth of a seabed or detects objects in water by the time taken for sound echoes to return to the device
- phelloplastics - phelloplastics is the art of carving or sculpting in cork
- ingrain, ingrained - ingrain literally means 'work into the grain' (originally, of fabric) and ingrained is metaphorical 'deep-seated'
- Heinz - Henry Heinz mass-produced ketchup and expanded to make other projects; he saw an ad for '21 Styles of Shoes' which spurred him to come up with his '57 Varieties'
- confection - confection had the early general sense 'something made by mixing,' coming from Latin conficere 'put together'; a fashionable article of women's dress is a confection