• charge - the notion underlying the word charge is of a 'burden' or 'load'; it ultimately comes from Latin carrus 'two-wheeled wagon'
• god bless you - to ensure that no bad spirits move into a body when one sneezes, god bless you was said so the body and spirit, which were briefly parted, could reunite
• agroforestry - agroforestry is the cultivation and alternation of tree or bush crops with annual food crops
• top-sider - top-sider, a kind of casual shoe (1937) gets its name from topside in nautical sense of 'upper deck of a ship,' where the rubber soles would provide good traction
• break dancing - break dancing was so called as it was designed to fill a break or gap in a piece of rap music
• serial number - a serial number is so called as it shows the position of an item in a series
• orthograde - orthograde animals walk with their bodies in a straight or vertical position
• vitilitigate - to vitilitigate is to contend noisily or argue
• plutonian - plutonian means 'grim, gloomy; harsh, unpleasing'
• core competency - core competency is a defined level of expertise that is essential or fundamental to a particular job; the primary area of expertise; specialty; the expertise that allows an organization or individual to beat its competitors
• ruck, ruckle - a ruck or ruckle is a heap or a pile
• do-it-yourself - do-it-yourself is a post-1945 phrase
• loaf - a head on a cabbage is called loaf
• angst - angst is a German word (pronounced AHNGST) that originally meant constriction; anxiety that is strong but unspecific is angst