This is a list of spelling words from British author Angie Sage’s book Physik. I collected the words as I read through the book. (Physik is the third in a series of books featuring Septimus Heap, and we highly recommend the books!) There are 200 words in this list and they might be suitable for school spelling bees for grades 6, 7 and 8.
| absentmindedly | invocation |
| acrimonious | iodine |
| alchemist | ipecacuanha |
| amulet | jostling |
| askance | labyrinth |
| assassinate | linctus |
| astronomical | livery |
| atmosphere | luxuriant |
| banister | mahogany |
| banquet | manifestation |
| banshee | misshapen |
| barricade | multitude |
| barricading | municipal |
| benighted | murmur |
| brazen | nonchalant |
| cacophony | noxious |
| canopy | nuisance |
| cauldron | octagonal |
| cauliflower | offal |
| cinnamon | ominous |
| circlet | pamphlet |
| clamored | parchment |
| cognizance | partition |
| colloid | peevishly |
| companionably | perchance |
| conjunction | pestilence |
| contagious | pipette |
| creosote | plummeted |
| crocheted | pomegranate |
| cryptic | ponderously |
| deciphered | porridge |
| decrepit | potbellied |
| descendant | precariously |
| despoiled | precocious |
| diminutive | propitious |
| disconsolate | quarantine |
| disdainful | quarry |
| disheveled | quayside |
| disintegrate | quinine |
| dissatisfaction | quizzical |
| doppelganger | rancid |
| dullard | ravenous |
| earthenware | reproachfully |
| eavesdropping | resplendent |
| eerily | retractable |
| elixirs | reverberating |
| eluded | riffraff |
| emblazoned | sauntered |
| embroidered | scaffolding |
| emollients | scathing |
| escapade | scrawny |
| exaggerate | scuffling |
| exasperation | seamstress |
| exhilaration | silhouette |
| exquisite | slalom |
| extricated | squabbling |
| fictitious | substantial |
| filigree | subterranean |
| flailing | succumb |
| flirtatious | suffused |
| florins | sullenly |
| flustered | surfeit |
| foreboding | surmounted |
| formulae | surreptitious |
| forsooth | susceptible |
| fourteenth | tantalizing |
| gainsay | tapestry |
| gangplank | telepathy |
| gimlet | tendrils |
| gizzards | tenet |
| glinting | tentatively |
| Gregorian | tenterhooks |
| grimace | thoroughfare |
| groats | throttle |
| gunwale | tincture |
| Hanseatic | torrent |
| haughty | translucent |
| hermetic | transmuting |
| hiccupping | transparent |
| hieroglyphs | transubstantiate |
| hostelries | treacherous |
| hubbub | trepidation |
| huffily | triumphant |
| imbecile | trundled |
| imminent | tumultuous |
| immortal | turbot |
| incantation | turbulent |
| incessant | tureen |
| incisors | turret |
| incomprehensible | unison |
| incredulous | unperturbed |
| indentation | upholstered |
| indignantly | ventilation |
| infirmary | vertigo |
| iniquity | victuals |
| inquisitive | vigilant |
| insistent | wainscoting |
| intersperse | wizened |
| intertwined | wolverines |
| inveigled | wondrous |
You can also download this list as a PDF file.
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