words

• Tinseltown
• Winnebago
• acrimony
• adobe
• astroturf
• bailiwick
• belly button
• cantrip
• cichlid (fish)
• compunction
• coppice
• diatribe
• discombobulated
• doldrums
• eave
• echt
• elevenses
• enchilada: the whole enchilada
• farrow
• gelding
• gimlet
• gossamer
• gregarious
• halcyon
• hoydenish
• indelible
• intimate (verb)
• juggernaut
• jugular
• jumbotron
• lackadaisical
• lief
• liminal
• littoral drift
• nimble
• nincompoop
• nook: every nook and cranny
• nutgraf
• oriole
• oxbow
• patty-cake
• peregrine falcon
• pernickety
• phantasmagoria
• phlebotomist
• pierogi
• pizzazz
• plywood
• porcine
• prehensile
• quagmire
• quixote
• remittance
• repair (to one’s room)
• senescent
• shamrock
• snort
• splanchnic
• stationery
• steeplejack
• tchotchke
• thither
• turnpike
• valve
• vespine
• vicinage
• visceral
• vixen
• widdershins
• will-o’-the-wisp
• wistful
• wordsmith
• yurt