(noun) night music panzer Origin: German, from German word panzier meaning armor (noun) An isolated mountain partly buried by the debris derived from and overlapping its slopes nachtmusik Origin: German, from German words nacht meaning night and musik meaning music (noun) cross-country running or racing on skis inselberg Origin: German, from German words insel meaning island and berg meaning mountain (noun) knee-length leather trousers langlauf Origin: German, from German word lang meaning long and lauf meaning race (noun) Oven-roasted or pot-roasted beef marinated in a vinegar solution with peppercorns, garlic, onions, and bay leaves before cooking lederhosen Origin: German, from German words leder meaning leather and hosen meaning trousers (noun) Small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears sauerbraten Origin: German, from German words sauer meaning sour and braten meaning meat (noun) A German secondary school that includes in its curriculum modern languages, mathematics, science, practical arts, and commercial subjects and that teaches no classics and is not designed to prepare students for the university dachshund Origin: German, from German words dach meaning badger and hund meaning dog Origin: German, from Latin word real and German word schule meaning school (noun) Any of several varieties of coffee cake typically made from sweet yeast dough and variously shaped, flavored, and frosted realschule Say: re-al-scule (noun) A small transverse flute with shrill tone used chiefly to accompany the drum kuchen Origin: German, from German word kuocho meaning cake (noun) Soft, white balls of ice: snowflakes covered in rime fife Origin: German, from German word pfifa meaning flute Origin: German, from German word graupe meaning peeled grain and the Old English word krupa meaning rain (noun) A member of one of the guilds organized in the principal cities of Germany in the 1300s, 1400s, and 1500s to establish competitive standards for the composition, and performance of music, and poetry. Origin: German, from German words meister meaning master and singer meaning the one who sings (noun) A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound Meistersinger Say: my-ster-singer Origin: German, from German word umbe meaning around preposition (noun) A sweet yeast bread of German origin containing fruit and nuts umlaut Say: um-laut Origin: German, from German word stollo meaning support (noun) The position of a skier leaning forward from the ankles, usually without lifting the heels from the skis stollen Say: Sto-len Origin: German, from German words vor meaning before and lage meaning position (novel) A type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist. Origin: German, from German word Bildung meaing education and Roman meaning novel (adjective) true, genuine Bildungsroman Say: Bil-dungs-roman Origin: German, from German word echte meaning lawful (noun) A German, Austrian, or Swiss expressway. Origin: German, from auto and German word bahn meaning road (noun) Any of a race of cabbages having an edible stem that becomes greatly enlarged, fleshy, and turnip-shaped autobahn Say: auto-bon Origin: German, from German word khol meaning cabbage and Italian word rapa meaning radish (noun) A crumbly mixture made by cutting butter into flour, sugar, and possibly spices kohlrabi Say: khol-rabi Origin: German, from German word strousel meaning something strewn Synonym for diathrosis streusel Say: Strue-sel (noun) A movable joint or point upon which bones move freely upon each other. (noun) An edible shellfish having a flat shell lined with mother-of-pearl abarthrosis Say: ab-ar-thro-sis (noun) thin undercrust of pastry (like "abase") abalone Say: ab-a-lone (adjective) from an infinitely remote point of time in the past abaisse Say: abasse (noun) small tile for mosaic abaeterno Say: ab-ae-ter-no
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