One good word a night, grown from the Blossom board.The funny-looking ones are always load-bearing.
Old English nīedfȳr — a ritual fire kindled by friction in a time of calamity, lit to protect the herd from plague while every other hearth in the district stood cold.
The personification of memory — one of the three elder Muses, before the famous nine. She survives by hiding inside other words: mnemonic, amnesia, anamnesis.