| ROTI | Bread whose name derives from the Sanskrit for "bread" |
| CROSTINI | Italian breadand- toppings appetizer |
| ZEN | Buddhist school whose name ultimately derives from the Sanskrit for "meditation" |
| SINGH | Name originating in India that derives from the Sanskrit word for lion (5) |
| PITA | Bread whose name comes from the Greek word for "pie" |
| OPAL | Gem whose name comes from the Sanskrit for "jewel" |
| SARI | Garment whose name comes from the Sanskrit for "strip of cloth" |
| PUNCH | From the Sanskrit for "five kinds" because of its supposed original five ingredients of alcohol, fruit juice, spice, sugar and water, a mixed drink often served from a large bowl (5) |
| DURGA | From the Sanskrit for "inaccessible", the lion- or tiger-riding demon-buffalo-slaying Hindu goddess of valour and victory (5) |
| YOGA | From the Sanskrit for "union", a Hindu discipline with branches including ashtanga and hatha (4) |
| ANIL | From the Sanskrit for "dark blue", the indigo shrub or its pigment (4) |
| ASANA | From the Sanskrit for "seat", any one of the postures in hatha yoga (5) |
| MELA | From the Sanskrit for "assembly, gathering", word for an Indian fair (4) |
| PAL | Romany word, from the Sanskrit for "brother", for a chum or mate (3) |
| CHAKRA | From the Sanskrit for "wheel", each of the body's seven centres of spiritual power, according to ayurvedic or yogic thought (6) |
| AYURVEDA | From the Sanskrit for "knowledge of long life", a traditional Indian system of healing that combines diet, herbalism, meditation and yoga (8) |
| MAHATMA | Honorific title from the Sanskrit for 'great' of Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi (7) |
| GURU | Word that comes from the Sanskrit for "mentor" |
| NAAN | Bread whose name comes from Persian |
| CIABATTA | Bread whose name means “slipper” in Italian |
