| adjutant |
| administrivia |
| admixture |
| affable |
| affidavit |
| agog |
| amortize |
| antinomy (too similar to antimony) |
| aplomb |
| apropos |
| auteur |
| bailiwick |
| balk (in non-baseball senses) |
| ballpeen |
| bellwether |
| bivouac |
| blithe |
| boisterous |
| braggadocio |
| bruit |
| buff (as a noun; e.g., "film buff") |
| bunkum |
| cajole |
| canny |
| caveat (when used in English) |
| celeb |
| chanteuse |
| chide |
| chit |
| cohort |
| comptroller |
| concomitant |
| coterie |
| coverlet |
| crevasse |
| culpable |
| cupola |
| cusp |
| cuss |
| daub |
| dietetic |
| dint |
| ditty |
| divvy |
| doughty |
| eatery |
| egalitarian |
| electronica |
| enfeoff (why is this even a word?) |
| ersatz |
| escarpment |
| fecund |
| fob |
| foci |
| foment |
| forgiveness (because shouldn't it be "forgivenness"?) |
| freer |
| freest |
| frontispiece |
| futz |
| gadfly |
| generalissimo |
| glib |
| gubernatorial |
| gumption |
| heyday |
| hirsute |
| hokum |
| hoodwink |
| hubby |
| hubris |
| imbroglio |
| inasmuch |
| inchoate |
| indubitable |
| insofar |
| jibe |
| jodhpurs |
| josh (as a verb; it's fine as a name) |
| jumbo |
| klatch |
| kudos |
| libidinous |
| lummox |
| mastiff |
| maudlin |
| mawkish |
| mayhaps |
| milieu |
| mobo (abbreviation for "motherboard") |
| modicum |
| mogul (in any non-skiing-related sense) |
| monies |
| moniker |
| moreover |
| moxie |
| muster |
| nascent |
| natch |
| netizen |
| oeuvre |
| ombudsman |
| onomatopoeia (actually, I just hate trying to spell it) |
| onus |
| ostensible |
| ostentatious |
| ouster |
| palimpsest |
| palpable |
| parcheesi |
| paucity |
| payee |
| pedagogy |
| pedant |
| perspicacious |
| philately |
| piebald |
| pimp |
| pimple |
| politburo |
| pollster |
| pomp |
| prefatory |
| prerogative |
| preternatural |
| procuratorate |
| promissory |
| prothonotary |
| proviso |
| provost |
| pseudepigraphical |
| ptarmigan |
| pundit |
| quaternary |
| redound |
| registrar |
| ribald |
| rubric |
| samizdat |
| significand |
| slalom |
| smooch |
| soupçon |
| sputum |
| subpoena |
| suds |
| summonses |
| suzerainty |
| tantamount |
| tater |
| teetotaler |
| temblor |
| tenable |
| thruway |
| toke |
| toot |
| topos |
| tout |
| tuque |
| tutelary |
| uproarious |
| uptick |
| usury |
| utmost |
| vamp |
| vichyssoise |
| viscount |
| winningest |
| wont |
| wunderkind |
| yokel |
| youngster |
| zany |