Real Words Without Definition
This one is a judgement call.
A name rather than a word. People, places, peoples, languages, gods and characters.
Names of peoples are the biggest group. abipon is an Argentine people, abdali an Afghan tribe, abarambo a Congolese one. There are literary names too. abhorson is Shakespeare's executioner and arthemis is an old spelling of Artemis.
Dictionaries of this age printed names in a separate section at the back, so a definition lookup never finds them.
1,723 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 names |
|---|---|
| meshech | Biblical son of Japheth and the people named from him |
| mespot | WWI soldiers' slang for Mesopotamia |
| mesvinian | Mesvinian, Palaeolithic industry of Mesvin |
| metrostyle | Aeolian Metrostyle, pianola tempo indicator |
| mexitl | Mexitl, Aztec war god, Huitzilopochtli |
| michabo | Michabo, Algonquian Great Hare deity |
| michabou | Michabou, variant of Michabo |
| michoacan | Michoacán, Mexican state |
| miledh | Míl (Miledh), legendary ancestor of the Irish |
| milesius | Milesius, legendary ancestor of the Irish |
| mimpei | Japanese Mimpei ware, after the potter Mimpei |
| mindelian | of the Mindel Alpine glacial stage |
| mindererus | Mindererus, as in spirit of Mindererus |
| minimite | Minimite, friar of the Order of Minims |
| minseito | Minseito, Japanese political party |
| miranhan | Miranha, an Amazonian people and language |
| miriamne | female given name, variant of Mariamne |
| misenus | Misenus, Trojan trumpeter in the Aeneid |
| missisauga | Mississauga, an Ojibwe people |
| mitakshara | Mitakshara, Sanskrit law treatise |
| mitannish | of Mitanni, ancient Hurrian kingdom |
| mobilianer | speaker of Mobilian trade jargon |
| mochudi | town in Botswana |
| mocoan | Mocoan, Colombian language family |
| moghan | Mughan plain, Azerbaijan |
| moguntine | of Mainz (Moguntiacum) |
| mohawkian | of the Mohawk people or language |
| mollberg | Swedish surname/place name |
| molmutian | of Dunwallo Molmutius, legendary British king |
| molpe | Molpe, one of the Sirens in Greek myth |
| mombottu | Mombuttu (Mangbetu) people of central Africa |
| monarcho | Monarcho, braggart at Elizabeth I's court |
| mongibel | Mongibel, Mount Etna |
| mongoyo | Mongoyo, indigenous people of Brazil |
| montagnac | Montagnac, French place name and woolen cloth |
| montesco | Montesco, Italian form of Montague |
| montjoye | Montjoie, French war cry and herald's title |
| mooachaht | Mooachaht, a Nuu-chah-nulth group |
| moph | Moph, biblical name of Memphis in Egypt |
| moravite | a Moravian, member of the Moravian Brethren |
| mordv | Mordv (Mordvin) people of Russia |
| moreote | a native of the Morea (Peloponnese) |
| morrenian | of the Belgian botanist Morren |
| mosan | Mosan, proposed NW Coast language family |
| mosatenan | Moseten language/people of Bolivia |
| mosetena | Moseten people of Bolivia |
| motozintlec | Motozintlec, Mayan language of Chiapas |
| motozintleca | Motozintleca people of Chiapas |
| muhammadi | of or relating to Muhammad |
| muladi | Muladi, Iberian convert to Islam under the Moors |
| mulcibirian | of Mulciber (Vulcan), of the forge |
| mumbo | Mumbo (Jumbo), West African bogy figure |
| muradiyah | Muradiyah, Turkish foundation/Sufi order name |
| muridism | Muridism, militant Sufi movement of the Caucasus |
| musalmani | of the Musalmans (Muslims); Musalmani Urdu |
| muscovi | Muscovy (old spelling) |
| muscow | Moscow (old spelling) |
| mushabbihite | member of the Mushabbiha, Muslim anthropomorphists |
| muskwaki | Meskwaki (Fox) people, Algonquian |
| mutazala | Mu'tazila, Muslim rationalist school |
| nachitoch | Natchitoch, Louisiana Indian people |
| nachitoches | the Natchitoches people of Louisiana |
| nahuatlac | Nahuatlac, the Nahuatl-speaking peoples |
| nahuatleca | Nahuatleca, Nahuatl peoples of Mexico |
| nahuatlecan | of the Nahuatlecan language stock |
| namaquan | of Namaqualand or the Namaqua people |
| namban | Namban, Japanese European-style art |
| nandin | Nandin, the bull of Shiva |
| nandins | plural of Nandin, Shiva's bull |
| natchezan | Natchezan, Natchez language family |
| nebrodi | Nebrodi, mountain range in Sicily |
| negritian | of Nigritia, the Sudan region of Africa |
| nengahiba | apparent Polynesian island name |
| neogaea | Neogaea, the New World zoogeographic realm |
| nerthrus | apparently Nerthus, Germanic earth goddess |
| nesogaea | Nesogaea, the island zoogeographic realm |
| netchilik | Netsilik, Inuit people of the central Arctic |
| neudeckian | of Neudeck, a German place name |
| newburg | Newburg, as in lobster Newburg |
| newsweek | Newsweek, American news magazine |
| niasese | of Nias, an Indonesian island, its people |
| nijholt | Nijholt, a Dutch surname |
| nimkish | Nimpkish, a Kwakiutl people and river in BC |
| nintu | Nintu, Sumerian mother goddess |
| niota | Niota, town name (Tennessee, Illinois) |
| niquiran | Niquiran, indigenous people of Nicaragua |
| nocten | Nocten, a Mataco people of the Gran Chaco |
| nohuntsik | Nohuntsik, an Athabaskan people |
| nolascan | Nolascan, Mercedarian of St. Peter Nolasco |
| nordenfelt | Nordenfelt gun, Swedish arms maker |
| notogaea | zoogeographic region: Australia and the Pacific |
| noumea | capital of New Caledonia |
| nuadu | Nuadu, Irish mythological king and god |
| nylast | trade name of a nylon material |
| obidicut | Obidicut, a fiend named in King Lear |
| obrazil | O'Brazil, the legendary Atlantic island |
| oconnell | O'Connell, Irish surname |
| oconnor | O'Connor, Irish surname |
| ocypete | Ocypete, one of the Harpies |
| odonnell | O'Donnell, Irish surname |
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