Slavery in early medieval Europe was relatively common. It was widespread at the end of antiquity. The etymology of the word slave comes from this period, the word sklabos meaning Slav. Slavery declined in the Middle Ages in most parts of Europe as serfdom slowly rose, but it never completely disappeared. It persisted longer in Southern and Eastern Europe. In Poland slavery was forbidden in the 15th century; it was replaced by the second enserfment. In Lithuania, slavery was formally abolished in 1588.

Throughout this period slaves were traded openly in most cities, including cities as diverse as Marseilles,Dublin and Prague, and many were sold to buyers in the Middle East. The town of Caffa in the Crimeawas called the capital of the medieval slave trade, but an overland route to Caliphate of Córdoba took pagan and dualist Slavs from Kiev through Lviv and Prague, at that time the borderlands of Christianity, this arduous land route competing with the North-South route by river which led to the Black Sea.

5-letter words

ament

6-letter words

cement, dement, foment, lament, loment, moment

7-letter words

ailment, aliment, augment, clement, comment, element, ferment, figment, fitment, garment, hutment, oddment, payment, pigment, raiment, sarment, segment, torment, varment

8-letter words

abetment, abutment, argument, armament, averment, bailment, basement, bodement, casement, cerement, diriment, document, easement, filament, fragment, judgment, ligament, liniment, lodgment, monument, movement, muniment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, parament, pavement, pediment, regiment, rudiment, sediment, shipment, tegument, tenement, vehement, vestment, weldment

9-letter words

abasement, abashment, abatement, adornment, affixment, agreement, alignment, alinement, allotment, amassment, amazement, amendment, amusement, annulment, apartment, atonement, battement, besetment, blastment, catchment, condiment, debarment, decrement, deferment, determent, detriment, devilment, ejectment, elopement, embayment, embedment, emolument, enactment, endowment, enjoyment, equipment, excrement, extolment, feoffment, firmament, fleshment, fundament, hardiment, hatchment, implement, inclement, increment, interment, inurement, judgement, lineament, lodgement, merriment, nutriment, parchment, placement, ravelment, remitment, repayment, revetment, rousement, sacrament, sentiment, statement, strewment, testament, treatment, worriment

10-letter words

abridgment, accruement, adjustment, advisement, alightment, allurement, ambushment, amercement, anointment, arrestment, assessment, assignment, assoilment, assortment, attachment, attainment, attornment, attunement, avouchment, babblement, bafflement, banishment, battlement, bemusement, betterment, cajolement, cantonment, commitment, complement, compliment, conferment, couplement, debasement, debatement, decampment, defacement, defilement, definement, denotement, denouement, denudement, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, designment, detachment, detainment, devotement, disbarment, disownment, divestment, effacement, embalmment, embankment, embarkment, embodiment, embossment, employment, encampment, encasement, encashment, encystment, endearment, engagement, engulfment, enjambment, enlacement, enlistment, enmeshment, enrichment, enrollment, enserfment, entailment, enticement, entombment, entrapment, escapement, escarpment, evolvement, excitement, experiment, famishment, government, habiliment, harassment, immurement, impairment, impalement, impartment, impediment, incitement, indictment, inducement, instalment, instrument, integument, intendment, internment, investment, management, medicament, nonpayment, obtainment, ordainment, parliament, preachment, preferment, prepayment, punishment, puzzlement, rabblement, ravagement, ravishment, reargument, rearmament, recoupment, refinement, resentment, retirement, revealment, revilement, securement, seducement, settlement, signalment, solacement, subsegment, supplement, tanglement, tournament, unfoldment, wilderment, wonderment

11-letter words

abandonment, abolishment, abridgement, achievement, acquirement, adjournment, advancement, appeasement, appointment, arbitrament, arraignment, arrangement, assuagement, bedevilment, bedizenment, beguilement, bereavement, bewitchment, bombardment, commandment, compartment, comportment, concealment, concernment, confinement, congealment, consignment, containment, contentment, controlment, curettement, curtailment, debouchment, debridement, deforcement, depravement, derangement, despisement, despoilment, detrainment, development, disablement, disarmament, disbandment, discernment, dislodgment, disportment, dissepiment, divorcement, edutainment, embracement, embroilment, emplacement, empowerment, enchainment, enchantment, endorsement, enfeoffment, enforcement, enframement, engorgement, engraftment, engrossment, enhancement, enjambement, enlargement, ennoblement, enslavement, entitlement, entrainment, entreatment, entrustment, envelopment, environment, fulfillment, garnishment, impeachment, imperilment, impingement, impoundment, impressment, improvement, indorsement, installment, instillment, involvement, measurement, misjudgment, myofilament, nonargument, nourishment, overgarment, overpayment, predicament, prejudgment, presentment, procurement, realignment, recruitment, reenactment, reequipment, refrainment, refreshment, replacement, requirement, rescindment, restatement, startlement, subbasement, temperament, traducement

12-letter words

accouchement, accouterment, accoutrement, admonishment, aggrievement, announcement, appraisement, astonishment, bedazzlement, befuddlement, belittlement, bewilderment, blandishment, chastisement, comanagement, commencement, decipherment, demolishment, denouncement, dethronement, diminishment, disagreement, disbursement, disendowment, disguisement, disinterment, dislodgement, displacement, disseverment, embattlement, embezzlement, embitterment, emblazonment, empoisonment, empressement, encipherment, encirclement, encroachment, endangerment, enfeeblement, enshrinement, entanglement, enthrallment, enthronement, entrancement, entrenchment, estrangement, hereditament, imprisonment, infotainment, infringement, intersegment, inveiglement, languishment, maltreatment, microelement, misalignment, misplacement, misstatement, mistreatment, monofilament, multielement, nonalignment, nontreatment, outplacement, overdocument, overornament, postponement, presentiment, pretreatment, radioelement, readjustment, reassessment, reassignment, reattachment, recommitment, redeployment, reemployment, reengagement, reenlistment, reindictment, reinvestment, renouncement, resettlement, ressentiment, retrenchment, stablishment, undergarment, underlayment, underpayment, unemployment, unsettlement

13-letter words

accompaniment, admeasurement, advertisement, advertizement, apportionment, ascertainment, bamboozlement, beleaguerment, disburdenment, disengagement, disfigurement, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disparagement, embarrassment, embellishment, embranglement, embrittlement, encompassment, encouragement, enlightenment, ensorcellment, entertainment, establishment, forestallment, interlacement, maladjustment, microfilament, misemployment, misgovernment, mismanagement, multifilament, nonattachment, noncommitment, nonemployment, nonengagement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, overstatement, overtreatment, posttreatment, precommitment, preemployment, preenrollment, preexperiment, prefigurement, preordainment, preretirement, presettlement, pretournament, pronouncement, rapprochement, reappointment, rearrangement, reconcilement, redevelopment, refurbishment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, remeasurement, replenishment, subdepartment, subemployment, subgovernment, thermoelement, transshipment, vouchsafement

14-letter words

accomplishment, acknowledgment, aggrandizement, antigovernment, antimanagement, arrondissement, bouleversement, disappointment, disarrangement, disconcertment, discontentment, discouragement, disembowelment, disenchantment, disfurnishment, disgruntlement, disheartenment, divertissement, extinguishment, impoverishment, intertwinement, nonachievement, nondevelopment, nonenforcement, nonfulfillment, noninstallment, noninvolvement, overadjustment, overassessment, overcommitment, overinvestment, overrefinement, postretirement, prearrangement, predevelopment, recommencement, relinquishment, semiretirement, subdevelopment, understatement

15-letter words

acknowledgement, antidevelopment, counterargument, countermovement, disentanglement, disillusionment, eclaircissement, enfranchisement, hyperexcitement, micromanagement, overachievement, overdevelopment, reapportionment, reestablishment, supergovernment, underemployment, underinvestment

16-letter words

antiunemployment, counterstatement, disestablishment, disfranchisement, embourgeoisement, hyperdevelopment, malapportionment, microenvironment, nonentertainment, nonestablishment, nonreappointment, underachievement, underdevelopment, undernourishment

17-letter words

antiestablishment, counterdeployment, countergovernment

18-letter words

disenfranchisement, gedankenexperiment

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