Real Words Without Definition
This one is a judgement call.
Old English that fell out of use and got dropped from later dictionaries.
abush is an old form of ambush. absee was the alphabet. abiston was a name for asbestos. abbroachment was the offence of buying wholesale to sell on at retail.
These were normal words with normal definitions. People stopped using them and the dictionaries stopped carrying them.
2,710 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | What it meant |
|---|---|
| incuneation | obs., a wedging in |
| incuss | obs., to strike upon or against |
| indefluent | obs., flowing in or down |
| indepravate | obs., not depraved, uncorrupted |
| indigenate | obs., native quality; naturalization |
| individuous | obs., indivisible, undivided |
| inexpleble | obs., insatiable (L. inexplebilis) |
| inexpress | obs., inexpressible |
| infamation | obs., defamation, disgrace |
| infamatory | obs., defamatory |
| infand | obs., unspeakable (L. infandus) |
| infanglement | obs., a taking in, entanglement |
| inferial | obs., of funeral rites (L. inferiae) |
| infestious | obs., hostile, infectious (L. infestus) |
| inflatile | obs., inflatable; of wind instruments |
| infund | obs., to pour in (L. infundere) |
| ingene | obs., wit, genius; engine |
| ingeniary | obs., an engineer; of genius |
| ingenier | obs. form of engineer |
| ingenital | obs., inborn, innate (L. ingenitus) |
| inglutition | obs., the act of swallowing |
| ingreat | obs., to make great, magnify |
| ingreve | ME, to grieve, vex |
| inhaustion | obs., the act of drinking in |
| inhelde | ME inhelden, to pour in |
| inhonest | obs., dishonorable (L. inhonestus) |
| iniquitable | obs., iniquitous, unjust |
| initive | obs., initial, of the beginning |
| inlagary | law, restoration of an outlaw to legal protection |
| inlagation | law, the restoring of an outlaw to the law |
| inlake | obs./dial., deficiency, want |
| inless | obs. form of "unless" |
| inlike | obs., like, similar; in like manner |
| inneity | obs., innateness, inherent quality |
| innobedient | obs. spelling of inobedient, disobedient |
| innuate | obs., to hint at, insinuate |
| inominous | obs., inauspicious, ill-omened |
| inparfit | ME, imperfect |
| inquaintance | obs., acquaintance, familiarity |
| inquisit | obs., to inquire into, search out |
| inracinate | obs., to root in, implant by the roots |
| inrol | obs. spelling of enrol |
| insapory | obs., tasteless, without savor |
| inscenation | obs., the staging or mise-en-scene of a play |
| inscious | obs., unknowing, ignorant |
| insecution | obs., pursuit, a following after |
| insidiation | obs., a lying in wait, ambush |
| insisture | Shakespeare, constancy, regularity of position |
| insititious | obs., grafted, engrafted, implanted |
| insorb | obs., to suck in, absorb inward |
| institorian | obs., pertaining to a factor or agent (Roman law) |
| institory | obs., pertaining to a factor or agent |
| insuccate | obs., to soak or steep in juice |
| intabulate | obs., to enter in a table, tabulate |
| inteind | obs. Scots form of intend |
| intelligentiary | obs., one who gives intelligence, an informer |
| intelligize | Coleridge, to exercise the intellect |
| intemeration | obs., inviolateness, purity |
| intented | obs., stretched out; also var. of intended |
| interarboration | obs., interlacing of tree branches |
| interbastate | obs., to interweave or baste together |
| intercursation | obs., a running between, interchange |
| interemption | obs., destruction, a cutting off |
| interessor | obs., one having an interest, a partner |
| intergatory | obs. contraction of interrogatory |
| interlucate | obs., to thin trees so as to let in light |
| interminant | obs., threatening (L. interminari) |
| internect | obs., to bind together (L. internectere) |
| interpeal | obs., to interrupt (var. of interpel) |
| interstinctive | obs., marked or variegated between (L. interstinguere) |
| intimity | obs., intimacy, inwardness (F. intimite) |
| intimous | obs., intimate, inmost |
| intinct | obs., tinged or dyed |
| intoxation | obs., poisoning (from intoxate, to poison) |
| intrado | obs. form of intrada, an entrance; revenue |
| intrait | obs., a portrait or likeness (OF. entrait) |
| intrince | obs., intricate, entangled (Shakespeare) |
| intrine | obs. var. of intrinse, entangled |
| intrinse | obs., intricate, entangled (King Lear) |
| intrinsicate | obs., intricate, entangled (Shakespeare) |
| intue | obs./rare, to perceive intuitively |
| intuent | obs., gazing upon; intuiting |
| inumbration | obs., a shading or overshadowing |
| inusitateness | obs., unusualness, state of being out of use |
| invector | obs., one who inveighs; a railer |
| inveneme | obs., to envenom, poison (Spenser) |
| invicted | obs., unconquered (L. invictus) |
| invictive | obs., unconquered, invincible |
| inviousness | obs., pathlessness, impassability |
| invirtuate | obs., to endue with virtue or power |
| invised | obs., unseen, invisible (Shakespeare) |
| iracundulous | obs., somewhat angry or irascible |
| ironiously | obs., ironically (from ironious) |
| irpe | obs., a fantastic grimace or gesture |
| irrecurable | obs., incurable, not to be remedied |
| irreverendly | obs., irreverently (irreverend = irreverent) |
| irritament | obs., that which irritates, an irritant |
| istoke | ME i- + stoke, thrust or stuck |
| itinerous | obs./rare, travelling, itinerant |
| iwearth | ME i-wearth, became |
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