Element

• air

  Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles).

• fire

  Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles).

• earth

  Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles).

• ether

  The fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the...

• water

  Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles).

Black

• Black

  A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).

• Negress

  A Black woman or girl.

• colored person

  A United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive.

Mixed-blood

• mulatto

  An offspring of a black and a white parent.

• quadroon

  An offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black.

• octoroon

  An offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black.

Also contains

• Oriental

  A member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by...

• gildhall

  The meeting place of a medieval guild.

• alienism

  An obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness.

• fardel

  A burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle).

• simple

  Any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties.

• menstruum

  (archaic) a solvent.

• ambages

  (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action.

• hold

  A stronghold.

• sooth

  Truth or reality; "in sooth".

• hornpipe

  An ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone.

• muchness

  Greatness of quantity or measure or extent.

• palfrey

  Especially a light saddle horse for a woman.

• caitiff

  A cowardly and despicable person.

• the halt

  (archaic) lame persons collectively; "the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind"--Luke...

• instancy

  The quality of being insistent; "he pressed his demand with considerable instancy".

• meed

  A fitting reward.

• bosom

  The chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept; "his bosom was bursting...

• complexion

  (obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that...